Candles Burning Quotes

“The clocks had nothing to do with time but were merely instruments, the clicking and ticking of silver and gold and bronze and pinchbeck arrows, a droll and slapstick rhapsody of lies.”
― Tabitha King, Candles Burning

“Take my word for it, Calley. You have to be careful what you love because love has to be paid for.”
― Tabitha King, Candles Burning

“Things change, but only into themselves. Downstairs,”
― Tabitha King, Candles Burning

“I myself was so often hell-bound from my sinful pride that I was sinfully proud of it. Mama”
― Tabitha King, Candles Burning

“When somebody wants to kill somebody else, motivation is justification, that’s all.”
― Tabitha King, Candles Burning

“I suppose Mama did show him some mercy; she only relieved him of two thousand dollars. She didn’t marry him.”
― Tabitha King, Candles Burning

“Adults were people who had lost the innocent greedy joy of Christmas morning.”
― Tabitha King, Candles Burning

“You have to be careful what you love because love has to be paid for.”
― Tabitha King, Candles Burning

“Manipulation was a second language to me, learned at Mama’s knee.”
― Tabitha King, Candles Burning

“But it seems to me that you love her very much, and that you love her despite whatever reservations you may entertain of her character and conduct.”
“She’s my mama. I’m supposed to love her.”
“‘Supposed to’? Whose rule is that?”
“Mama’s.”
― Tabitha King, Candles Burning

“it certainly is remarkable how the childless always know everything there is to know about child rearing.”
― Tabitha King, Candles Burning

“Stupid is something else I learned from Ida Mae Oakes, who told me if a person just stands there silent, paying attention but not reacting, a lot of folks, the rackety kind, would jump to the conclusion that the person was stupid, which was sometimes a very useful thing to be. A person might get yelled at or punished or even fired, but if a person didn’t want to do something, being stupid might be the way not to do it. Or maybe a person would get the time to figure out what to do next, just by being stupid.”
― Tabitha King, Candles Burning

“Lonny Cane looked a lot like Daddy, if Daddy were for sale in a thrift shop.”
― Tabitha King, Candles Burning