Plantation Quotes

“I don’t believe in God because somebody told me I have to or I’ll burn in hell. I believe in God because I do. And if I can accept the whole concept of God, and I do, then why not Jesus too?”
― Dorothea Benton Frank, Plantation

“Maybe it was what I needed too. For all those years I told myself”
― Dorothea Benton Frank, Plantation

“What I’m saying, Caroline, is that this life was given us to serve God, not ourselves. By serving others through compassion, with love, with forethought—that by listening to our conscience we serve our souls, and God. In a nutshell, life is about service. That’s all there is for us to do.”
― Dorothea Benton Frank, Plantation

“In the time it took to drive halfway to Tall Pines, I had ripped off and wadded up my mourning clothes, thrown off the mantle of sorrow, and flirted my guts out with a state trooper. Nice work! Down south when we ran short of men, we recycled.”
― Dorothea Benton Frank, Plantation

“had loved Daddy too much and God had punished me for it. I knew then that it was a sin to love like that—so completely. If you did, you got robbed.”
― Dorothea Benton Frank, Plantation

“I prayed she would haunt me forever. Just because she was dead, she had no right to desert me.”
― Dorothea Benton Frank, Plantation

“Table of Contents Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Acknowledgements One - Richard Two - Miss Lavinia Would Like to Have a Word with You Three - Make No Misteak!”
― Dorothea Benton Frank, Plantation

“self-selecting process of elimination for most things life offered, such as risk and adventure.”
― Dorothea Benton Frank, Plantation

“better than that. In the end desperate calls to God might not change the outcome, but they might change”
― Dorothea Benton Frank, Plantation