Dowell Quotes

#1. We've been around for a long time, Mr. Dowell. Longer than you or any of your stupid little friends could ever conceive. Sleeping in the shadows and waiting for the right moment. A disease you might call us. A plague. Evil. From beneath the ground, it rises as it has done many times in the past.

Jeyn Roberts

#2. All there is, is fragments, because a man, even the loneliest of the species, is divided among several persons, animals, worlds. To know a man more than slightly it would be necessary to gather him together from all those quarters, each last scrap of him, and this done after he is safely dead.

Coleman Dowell

#3. Bible tells us we have been forgiven much, so we must love much. Love means forgiveness, and forgiveness means you have to be open to letting God work in your heart and in your mind,

Michelle Lynn Brown

#4. 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.

Frances O'Roark Dowell

#5. Tip #1: Let's Retire the Word Retire!

Mary Helen Conroy

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

Frances O'Roark Dowell

#7. Being is a fiction invented by those who suffer from becoming.

Coleman Dowell

#8. 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.

Frances O'Roark Dowell

#9. I was in a band called the SteelDrivers, and we just played hard in vans, hopping on airplanes, not knowing where you're at.

Chris Stapleton

#10. 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.

Frances O'Roark Dowell

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

Frances O'Roark Dowell

#12. 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.

Frances O'Roark Dowell

#13. He's experienced.
He has a mind.
He seduced me and took his time doing it.
He's good company.
He makes me think.
Knowing him has changed me forever.

Coleman Dowell

#14. I would say that the key doctrine of the Sanders administration would be no, we cannot continue to do it alone; we need to work in coalition.

Bernie Sanders

#15. For well you know that it's a fool who plays it cool
by making his world a little colder ...

The Beatles

#16. 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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Frances O'Roark Dowell

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

Frances O'Roark Dowell

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

Frances O'Roark Dowell

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

Frances O'Roark Dowell

#20. 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.

Frances O'Roark Dowell

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

Frances O'Roark Dowell

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

Frances O'Roark Dowell

#23. 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.

Frances O'Roark Dowell

#24. Because you will meet somebody more exceptional than anyone you have ever know. Who will love you warmly as possible. And who will so completely attract you that you will feel you never really loved before.

Alexandra Potter

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

Frances O'Roark Dowell

#26. If you fall in love with a character, then you are actually falling in love with the author that wrote the character. Therefore, you could conclude that if you are said author, you are in love with yourself.

Heather Dowell

#27. 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.

Frances O'Roark Dowell