The Book of Polly Quotes

“Jesus isn't gonna help me with a teenager, Lisa. He was good with lepers and whores and blind people, but he can't cure the smart ass years and you know it.”
― Kathy Hepinstall, The Book of Polly

“Easy for you to say," Polly said. "You've lived here all your life and stayed under the radar. No one points at you."
"Sometimes small children point at my butt," Aunt Rhea said. "But that's just on account of all the fried chicken.”
― Kathy Hepinstall, The Book of Polly

“You should have tried the eggplant parmesan she tried to hoist on me at the church bake sale. No wonder her children turned to Satan. He probably showed up as an angel of light and promised them a decent meal.”
― Kathy Hepinstall, The Book of Polly

“I wanted someone above me in the chain of life. I didn't want to be alone, a single blue egg in a crumbling nest.”
― Kathy Hepinstall, The Book of Polly

“It's not my fault that the gray of everyone else's stories makes the color stand out.”
― Kathy Hepinstall, The Book of Polly

“You [Polly] and your neighbor Mr. Tornello hate each other. You once paid a little girl to knock on his door and ask to borrow a cup of dumbass.”
― Kathy Hepinstall, The Book of Polly

“Do you own a garden?” Before she could respond, Polly answered for her. “Of course not. If you did, you would know that squirrels and other varmints are the enemy. They strip my peach trees and tear up my greens and steal my pecans. And just the other day I caught a squirrel dragging his butt between my cucumbers and sugar peas like a dog. That was pure spite.”
― Kathy Hepinstall, The Book of Polly

“Scandal was an antihistamine.”
― Kathy Hepinstall, The Book of Polly

“On the one side was Darcie Burrell—a reed-thin woman with a permanently conflicted expression, as though, deep inside her, someone was trying to bathe a cat. She attended our church, and was famous for praying over people who later”
― Kathy Hepinstall, The Book of Polly

“The better the child, the worse the teenager,”
― Kathy Hepinstall, The Book of Polly