Southern Setting Quotes

#1. Magical realism is a blending of the unusual or supernatural into an otherwise ordinary setting. And, to me, this perfectly describes the South. 'The Sugar Queen' involves a lot of magical happenings, but in a very down-home Southern setting. It's full of things that could almost be true.

Sarah Addison Allen

#2. When you have a valid opinion around, it takes a lot of the pressure off.

Drake

#3. The Devil craps on the big pile

Albert Einstein

#4. The beast caged. Rather limiting for Mr Hyde.

Gordon Merrick

#5. Charter boats are like books with no covers.

Tania Aebi

#6. This summer had been about finding herself, and learning to accept love in its various forms
and to give love. - Quinn Reynolds

Molli Moran

#7. The upright are richer in deeds than the wealthy are in gold.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#8. The nice thing about New York is that you're finally able to wear those winter clothes that have been sitting in your closet in mothballs.

Kyle MacLachlan

#9. Who's to say what a 'literary life' is? As long as you are writing often, and writing well, you don't need to be hanging-out in libraries all the time.
Nightclubs are great literary research centers. So is Ibiza!

Roman Payne

#10. 24 And if a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. 25 And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.

Anonymous

#11. It isn't necessarily the great and famous beauty spots we fall in love with. As with people, so with places. Love is unforeseen, and we can all find ourselves affectionately attached to the minor and the less obvious.

Muriel Spark

#12. When we get tired of enjoying all the pleasures within our reach, we have still a resource in thinking of others that are not.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#13. His eyes settled due west and gazed through the silhouetted, leaf-bare branches to the now-black rolling hills of the mountains he called home. The sun was setting on another day in Laurel Cove, though he couldn't help but wonder what was rising on the horizon.

Teresa Tysinger

#14. With red clay between my toes,
and the sun setting over my head,
the ghost of my mother blows in,
riding on a honeysuckle breeze, oh lord,
riding on a honeysuckle breeze.

Brenda Sutton Rose

#15. When you're doing a deal with someone in the southern Sahara, it's a very different way of doing business than in London. You can't sign them in the usual way because they'd end up getting ripped off, which would defeat the object of setting up a label like this.

Damon Albarn