Youmans Quotes

#1. A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage tells of a young boy's travels through the black heart of Depression American and his search for light both metaphorical and real. Writing with a controlled lyrical passion, Marly Youmans has crafted the finest, and the truest period novel I've read in years.

Lucius Shepard

#2. We live in this world where loosing our phones are more dramatic than loosing our virginity.

Megan Fox

#3. There are dedicated actors and there are people now who only stay famous for putting on weight, losing it, then putting it on again.

Joe Dempsie

#4. In moments, I clutched at the notion of some larger "me" that could contain and justify my contradictory behavior, but more often I simply felt like the scene of two irreconcilable visions, two different people, one unerringly loyal and faithful, the other treacherous and greedy.

Jennifer Egan

#5. Who can make a more effective appeal to the heart than woman?

Mahatma Gandhi

#6. he felt a pang of desire for the tintinnabulation of a Georgia summer. Strange, he thought, to long for the rasp of day- and dusk-singing cicadas and the night singers, katydids.

Marly Youmans

#7. I kept thinking that. I don't know why it is I can't seem to learn that a woman'll do anything.

William Faulkner

#8. It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing; his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business.

Theodore Parker

#9. Art amplifies voices on the margins-the views and opinions that power silences.

Will Youmans

#10. Those trees seem to grow every year ...

Peter Alliss

#11. You have to create different things, either through lighting or changing the format of the songs and how you're going to sing them, and even sometimes props.

Mary J. Blige

#12. Peace Love Rock and Roll!!!

Carrie Underwood

#13. The boy was twelve, reveling in the strange dust-smelling murk of a New Orleans library, watching motes flash gold in a beam of sun. He loved the ceiling lights on chains and the table lamps with their green glass shades. The room was as beautiful as another world.

Marly Youmans

#14. You can criticize something you strive for, and you can avoid something you dream about.

Nellie McKay

#15. You don't give up on democracy every time you lose a vote, Ethel said crisply.

Ken Follett

#16. It is probably true that I would not have had as many children or mothers in my books without being a mother with children. It is definitely true that I would not have written about the Civil War without having a little guy who was obsessed with it.

Marly Youmans

#17. Life is truly a miracle and must be protected, safeguarded and treasured.

Q.M. Herrera

#18. Torquelike, fear encircled her throat with its dull constant pressure....
...give the newborn child fresh from his own salt sea a look at the bigger ocean he had crossed. p 20

Marly Youmans

#19. What is a spouse for? Not to be your personal servant, certainly!

Marly Youmans