Jo Ann Beard Quotes

#1. The way everything seems to be working out right now, I wouldn't be surprised if I ended up dead before the night is over.

Jo Ann Beard

#2. We sit silently in our living room. He watches the mute television screen and I watch him. The planes and ridges of his face are more familiar to me than my own. I understand that he wishes even more than I do that he still loved me.

Jo Ann Beard

#3. On the very tip of his tongue is his Firerancher. Thin as tissue paper, it looks like the moon in the daytime sky. Suddenly love is looming over the car, as big and invisible as the ghost mountains of the Comobabi range. I smile at him and turn up the radio with my toes.

Jo Ann Beard

#4. Sometimes when you're cruel to others, it's because you've gotten yourself into a situation you can't get out of.

Jo Ann Beard

#5. Instead of slapping her head, I do what they tell you to do: count to ten. Only I do it the gifted way: 123+456+789+10. When your sister has hurtled you swerving into the darkness, stranded you at a funeral home, and threatens to get you in trouble, just stop and count to 1,378 before you respond.

Jo Ann Beard

#6. Within the souls of the awkward and the overlooked often burns something radiant.

Jo Ann Beard