Frances O'Roark Dowell Quotes

#1. You can't expect a person to love an animal they might see decapitated at any minute. It ain't realistic, I told Miss Blue, who was gulping down her worm. She looked up at me like it shocked her to learn that some chickens got treated that way.

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#2. Everybody's broken, sweetie. God helps us get put back together.
~Rev. Mayes
The Kind of Friends We Used to Be

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#3. Stars. Trees breathe in starlight year after year, and it goes deep into their bones. So when you cut a tree open, you smell a hundred years' worth of light. Ancient starlight that took millions of years to reach earth. That's why trees smell so beautiful and old.

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#4. You gonna stand in my backyard and ignore me to my face?

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#5. A friend is someone whose face you can see in the dark.

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#6. My dad, who my mom always refers to as DH for Darling Husband, was protrayed as a 'let's look on the bright side of things' kind of guy, the pillar my everbumbling mother leans on in times of distress.

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#7. 4. If you do not give your chickens enough space, light, air, and walking-around room, they will eat one another.

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#8. Quit it already. I'm pretty enough as it is.

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#9. That was a funny thing about friends, Marylin thought. You could know a person practically your whole life and she could still surprise you.

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#10. He was a big talker, someone who liked words for words' sake, the sound of them, the way you can pile them up in your mouth and make a poem if you speill them out the right way.
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#11. What's really weird is my mom's clothes smell like her. I mean, her perfume, and so all day it's like m mom has been walking right beside me. Which, you have to admit, a pretty freaky feeling.

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#12. Tobin, my man, you are going to learn about chickens. And when you to learn about chickens, you will learn about life.

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#13. Dream girl? Ain't such a thing. You walk, you talk, you got mammary glands, well, that's gonna do it right there for most guys.

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#14. I like your mama,' Trena tells me. 'She seems like good people.'
'Smile!' my mom calls to me from across the room, and I look at her and smile. Because she is good people. And she means well, even if she does drive me crazy.

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#15. I have to say, it felt good to be wanted, son. Felt real good.

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#16. I'm not done arguing with you, Mrs.Fletcher. I'm going to convince you yet." "Well I reckon I got ten or twenty more years in me before I pass on," Granny told him. "So feel free to take your time.

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