Quotes About Southern Gothic

#1. A shivery, delicious Southern Gothic with feuding families, dark spirits, ancient curses and caught up in the middle, a young girl learning to live and love for the first time. Atmospheric and suspenseful, Compulsion will draw you in and hold you until the very last page.

Leah Cypess

#2. Southern Gothic is alive and well. It's not just a genre, it is a way of life.

Greg Iles

#3. I look at you, Mrs. Emily. I see your eyes smile before your lips. Your hair has a curl that droops onto your forehead when the weather is humid . . .

I look at you too, Sabine. I see you.

Phyllis H. Moore

#4. Potential enemies make the best friends and lovers. Many a blessed union begins in adversity.

Randy Thornhorn

#5. We want to have certainties and no doubts
results and no experiments
without even seeing that certainties can arise only through doubt and results only through experiment.

C. G. Jung

#6. I'd like to work with horses, but it doesn't pay very well. Maybe I'd like to go somewhere in the Middle East because they keep buying really nice horses for their Olympic teams - like, the Qataris.

Edie Campbell

#7. Later he saw Jesus move from tree to tree in the back of his mind, a wild ragged figure motioning him to turn around and come off into the dark where he might be walking on the water and not know it and then suddenly know it and drown.

Flannery O'Connor

#8. When we became teenagers boredom grew like a moth in a cocoon fighting to escape, and the peace created by our parents became a prison. We sought excitement and adventure. We sought anything but the sinless, pure, and average of the faux idyllic.

Scott Thompson

#9. We cried. The bones and dust of our fathers cried with us.

Sharon Ewell Foster

#10. I'm the one who's always been there for you ... not him!

Cassandra Clare

#11. Her hands crept around his neck, tangling in his hair to keep him closer, even though she knew that beautiful boys with expiration dates couldn't be held, only borrowed for a time.

Martina Boone

#12. It's better to obey God rather than men.

Brother Andrew

#13. ~ darkness doesn't have to mean evil.

Mari Adkins

#14. The locust has no king
Just noise and hard language
They talk me over

David Eugene Edwards

#15. You always felt they were pawns in an indifferent universe, butts of an existential joke with no punch line.

Poppy Z. Brite

#16. I look out past the corn and the wheat and wonder how many sets of bones are buried, unspoken, keeping their stories to themselves in the dirt. I wonder if they know the sky is bright blue today and the air smells sweet. I wonder if they still listen in.

Andrea Portes