Folk Around and Find Out Quotes

“Forget banter and flowers and candlelit dinners. Forget expensive gifts and grand, sweeping gestures. Forget all that. A person in possession of self-sufficiency, attention to detail, expertise in domestic tasks—large and small—and who pitched in without being asked? Who did so with gentle kisses left on noses and temples and teasing smiles? Without complaint and expectation of constant praise and rewards and effusive gratitude?”
― Penny Reid, Folk Around and Find Out

“You know how on airplanes they always say you should put on your own mask before helping anyone else?” Hannah asked philosophically, breaking the quiet moment. I nodded. “That’s an allegory for life, I think. If your own mask isn’t on, you can’t breathe, and then you can’t help anybody, right? I spent so much time trying to force my momma to put on her mask without putting on mine, I forgot to breathe and I suffocated both of us in the process.”
― Penny Reid, Folk Around and Find Out

“You got to love everybody because everybody needs love,” she said. “And if we don’t love them, who will?”
― Penny Reid, Folk Around and Find Out

“I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don't even invite me.” ​— ​DAVE BARRY”
― Penny Reid, Folk Around and Find Out

“You don’t have to give people things in order for them to like you. You just have to be yourself and hope their kind of weird matches your kind of weird. Like us.”
― Penny Reid, Folk Around and Find Out

“To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.”
― Penny Reid, Folk Around and Find Out

“There’s a reason adults are too heavy to carry, Charlotte. They need to learn how to carry themselves”
― Penny Reid, Folk Around and Find Out

“I want them to, you know, be a rebel as long as they’re doing good in the world. Stir up some trouble, make things hard for the status quo but follow a well-thought moral code that’s hard or impossible to argue with or disregard. Do shocking things if you need to, but do them for the right reasons. Don’t live your life guided by fear of coloring outside the lines. Folks who color outside the lines make the biggest difference.”
― Penny Reid, Folk Around and Find Out

“One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny, and is likely to interfere with happiness in all kinds of ways.” ​— ​BERTRAND RUSSELL, THE CONQUEST OF HAPPINESS”
― Penny Reid, Folk Around and Find Out