Billie Letts Quotes

#1. The problem with Bush is that yes, he's religious in a fundamentalist sort of way, they read the Old Testament as a sort of charter for the chosen people to do what they like.

Bruce Kent

#2. Awake, she struggled to fill the hours until she could sleep again. But nothing she did made her feel whole. If she ate, she didn't taste the food. If she read, she couldn't remember the words. If she rested, she still felt tired

Billie Letts

#3. Tell them that our lives can change with every breath we take. Lord, we both know that. Tell them to let go of what's gone because men like roger Briscoe never win. And tell them to hold on like hell to what they've got- each other, and a mother who would die for them, and almost did.

Billie Letts

#4. Come on, Forney.'
Novalee, it's a parasite.'
But it's a tradition.'
It's a parasite! And you expect people to stand under it and kiss?'
Yes! it's what people do with mistletoe.

Billie Letts

#5. People can get accustomed to anything, right? Habit does things to people.

Bret Easton Ellis

#6. Novalee watched his lips shape the words ... the sounds, like whispered secrets, hanging in the air.

Billie Letts

#7. I tell myself, 'If I can wake up each day and be excited about what I'm doing, then I must be happy.' But then again, maybe I'm in denial.

Alexandra Cassavetes

#8. A man can't love you because you haven't read as many books as he has? He can't love you because you don't speak French or because you don't go to operas? You're telling me we have to fall in love with people who are just like us?

Billie Letts

#9. She always set three alarms for fear that the first employees to arrive would discover her sleeping - a Goldilocks without her bears

Billie Letts

#10. Our lives can change with every breath we take.

Billie Letts

#11. Whenever we have seen a crevice in the crust of convention, we have called attention to it, because we have hoped for a force underneath, which will someday come to light.

Franz Marc

#12. Home is the place that'll catch you when you fall. And we all fall.

Billie Letts

#13. To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, today is big with blessings.

Mary Baker Eddy

#14. The money The girl stiffened at something she heard in his voice, something jagged and sharp, like words torn by the blade of a knife.

Billie Letts

#15. You ever think about this? Every year you live, you pass the anniversary of your death. Now you don't know what day it is, of course.

Billie Letts

#16. I used to be afraid of the dark. But sometimes, it's the best place to be. Sometimes you can see things in the dark that you can't see in the light.

Billie Letts

#17. Home gives you something no other place can ... your history. Home is where your history begins.

Billie Letts

#18. But if it's something you want, then time doesn't matter. Time doesn't matter at all.

Billie Letts

#19. Remember this: change is brought about by good purpose.

Billie Letts

#20. Oh that I had the opportunity to rethink so many of my decisions, for the pitfalls into which I have so frequently fallen were often dug with the shovel of those very decisions.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#21. Tell them that we have some good in us, too. And the only thing worth living for is the good. That's why we've got to make sure we pass it on.

Billie Letts

#22. Art is like a lover whom you run away from but who comes back and picks you up.

Tracey Emin

#23. I often compare my method of working to that of a well-meaning freed woman in a Northern state who is attempting to delineate the horrors of Southern slavery but with next to no resources, other than some paper and a pen knife and some people she'd like to kill

Kara Walker

#24. Only Certain offered no enticements, for she knew nothing could ease the pain. Not books or photography or food. Not even love.

Billie Letts

#25. There is a grotesquerie to grief as well. You lose the sense of your existence being rational, or justifiable. You feel absurd.

Julian Barnes

#26. Never act like you want it, darlin'. Act like you wouldn't own it if they paid you. Tell them it's dirty, broken ... a useless thing. Then make an offer.

Billie Letts

#27. Actually, the first thing I do is choose the antique that will be featured in each book. I try to find unusual objects with great stories. I am fascinated by the stories.

Jane Cleland

#28. The boy, a ten-year-old copy of the man...

Billie Letts

#29. And the needles of the pine trees, freshly washed to a deep, rich green, shimmered with droplets that blinked like clear crystals.

Billie Letts

#30. On my reservation, we had one of the most abundant fisheries in the world and hundreds of thousands of acres of wild rice beds. We've lost a lot of it, but there's still natural wealth that could support our communities.

Winona LaDuke

#31. You can't be with someone else effectively, unless you can stand to be alone with yourself," he declared. "Being part of a couple isn't the final answer. It can't define who you are.

Joan Bauer

#32. I learned it was better to tiptoe through life and arrive at death's door safely.

Marquita Burke-DeJesus

#33. I like running. I am lucky for that; I don't find it hard. I like it as much as relaxing, actually. I am very focused on driving, and I don't like to party too much; that's just who I am.

Romain Grosjean