Fireworks Over Toccoa Quotes

“I'm just a girl Jake"
"I think you're that, and much, much more."
Another long moment. Lily found herself returning his smile, finding her own sense of knowing. And suddenly she felt at ease, a sense of mysterious calm.”
― Jeffrey Stepakoff, Fireworks Over Toccoa

“The world was such a different place, but there were the same stars, the same kinds of yearnings beneath them.”
― Jeffrey Stepakoff, Fireworks Over Toccoa

“A moment in the sky, forever in the heart.”
― Jeffrey Stepakoff, Fireworks Over Toccoa

“Once again, Jake held Lily's hand tight as they made their way across the creek, loud and swollen, the morning mist rising over it like a ghost.”
― Jeffrey Stepakoff, Fireworks Over Toccoa

“Her sweat was a potion, her scent elixir.”
― Jeffrey Stepakoff, Fireworks Over Toccoa

“She had stumbled across a ghost, and her touch had conjured the apparition.”
― Jeffrey Stepakoff, Fireworks Over Toccoa

“Both possessing remarkably rich southern drawls, words loitered on their tongues like drunken drifters when they spoke.”
― Jeffrey Stepakoff, Fireworks Over Toccoa

“Lily lay back in Jake's arms looking at the timbered roof overhead, planks and beams smooth and worn, antiqued by a century of summers.”
― Jeffrey Stepakoff, Fireworks Over Toccoa

“And just stared, unmoved, as though watching a world in which she was no longer an inhabitant.”
― Jeffrey Stepakoff, Fireworks Over Toccoa

“Inside the car, Lily stared at the tree right in front of her as bucketfuls of wet Georgia red clay, the color of blood, just sprayed up from her car, dripped slowly down the trunk.”
― Jeffrey Stepakoff, Fireworks Over Toccoa

“Rain pounded on the Packard, reverberating through the car and into her bones. The wipers going full speed, banging on the steel frame of the windshield like a metronome out of control, she still could not see more than a few feet in front of her.”
― Jeffrey Stepakoff, Fireworks Over Toccoa

“There are no ordinary lives.”
― Jeffrey Stepakoff, Fireworks Over Toccoa