Vicki Covington Quotes

#1. I'm serious, now let me know every time you see her cry. The thought brings me great joy. Hope.

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#2. I was that kind of tired you feel when you've spent a day in a hospital while a loved one undergoes surgery and comes through all right, the loved one, of course, being myself, and Christmas being the surgical procedure.

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#3. Announcements are best kept intact until stomachs are satisfied. News settles easier when blood sugar is stable.

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#4. I've never known a tranquil atheist. Don't they always look like they just sat on a tack?

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#5. Old age breeds the miracle of recall. You have no short-term memory atall; you can't remember what you did minutes ago, but you can recall with exquisite clarity what you did on your fifth birthday and how it all felt.

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#6. The choice was whether to be sad and foolish or sad and reasonable.

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#7. Explain to me, if you will, why alcoholism is a disease but can only be treated by attending little spiritual meetings in basements.

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#8. His parents were tiny people and knew how to dance. Scotty danced, too, with a variety of women, I'm sure, though I never acknowledged this to myself until years later. He knew charm.

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#9. If there's one thing I learned in Alanon, it's that you got to face the music because it just grows louder when you ignore it.

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#10. Neva ought to smile more. It breaks her anxiety into tiny pieces of joy you want to gather up and hand back to her in your palms, as if to say, See what you can make when you loose the reins.

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#11. It was deep afternoon when shadows begin to grow, light becomes gold, and you realize that this particular day has reached its destiny. Like old age, it's not yet over, but there's no denying the time of day.

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#12. All the men I know add that "hands that prepared it" line. They must know it's right complimentary, an incentive to keep the women cooking.

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