By Invitation Only Quotes

“Did my daughter, my only child, think she was going to take control of her wedding, without me?”
― Dorothea Benton Frank, By Invitation Only

“As long as she loved my boy, I loved her. If she broke his heart, I’d kill her with my bare hands. This seemed reasonable to me. But”
― Dorothea Benton Frank, By Invitation Only

“Mother of the groom. Wear beige and shut up.”
― Dorothea Benton Frank, By Invitation Only

“I would imagine if you could build a home to face east and west, the beginning and end of the day would be something rather spectacular to see.”
― Dorothea Benton Frank, By Invitation Only

“there were days when I wished for a reprieve – maybe a trip somewhere I’ve never been.”
― Dorothea Benton Frank, By Invitation Only

“And I’m”
― Dorothea Benton Frank, By Invitation Only

“We’re simply going to do what we always do. Clean it up. Pull ourselves up by our bootstraps and figure it out. Come on now.”
― Dorothea Benton Frank, By Invitation Only

“drippings from the roasting pan into a Pyrex measuring cup, let the fat rise to the top, removed it as well as I could, and poured the goodies into the gravy, turning it from blond to the color of a pecan shell. Beautiful.”
― Dorothea Benton Frank, By Invitation Only

“We’re gonna give it a nice slice to give us a flat end.” I cut a bit off the end and stood the onion up. “Now we’re going to slice through the root like this.” I divided the onion in two. “Now we quickly peel.” I threw the peels in the compost bucket. “Now see all these little lines? We just follow them down the body and then across. Look at that!” In less than two minutes there was a mound of perfectly chopped onion pieces on the cutting board. “That’s”
― Dorothea Benton Frank, By Invitation Only

“It’s just that I can’t figure out how to be in this world without him. I just can’t be the same.”
― Dorothea Benton Frank, By Invitation Only

“you want something, you go and get it. If you don’t want that thing, you let it go and stop brooding.”
― Dorothea Benton Frank, By Invitation Only

“This was the thing about family heirlooms: humble or grand, they made the past alive again.”
― Dorothea Benton Frank, By Invitation Only

“When you didn’t live in a strict corporate world, you didn’t have to worry about fitting in and being politically correct all the time. You could afford the luxuries of self-expression. We took advantage of self-expression in spades.”
― Dorothea Benton Frank, By Invitation Only

“in Raleigh, North”
― Dorothea Benton Frank, By Invitation Only