Swan Quotes

“What is life but this? Choices made early in a relationship determine the course.”
― Frances Mayes, Swan

“Could anyone ever believe the pumping red heart just stops; we go in a box and are buried, while those who love us are left to figure out how to endure this brutal subtraction from life?”
― Frances Mayes, Swan

“At the conservative estimate according to the diet book, she would be down to her slinky best by February. Immediately, she wished she had not eaten the poisonous-looking orange crackers spread with evil peanut butter.”
― Frances Mayes, Swan

“She knew she should, but should, would, could, blended together in her mind.”
― Frances Mayes, Swan

“Life is too accidental. I can’t take it.”
― Frances Mayes, Swan

“He looked perfectly all right, maybe a little vacant like some old god left out in the rain.”
― Frances Mayes, Swan

“She'd never liked children, but their powerful needs, when they came to her, by far outweighed her reluctance to meet them. They were her own kin. Where else could they go?”
― Frances Mayes, Swan

“Everybody died, death is a part of life, of course, but she felt hot rage at the thought of how we're squished out like bugs even after—she knew she was being irrational—all the times we've washed our hair, tended to the insurance, wiped grease off the counters, taken in the paper.”
― Frances Mayes, Swan

“Had his own way of praying, he had said; that old excuse. As if we were meant to be solitary. As if the church were not about holding the community together, as this sinful one needed.”
― Frances Mayes, Swan