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Paulette Jiles quotes

Ocupation: Poet

Life: b. April 4, 1943

Birthday: April 4

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The road to hell was paved with the bones of men who did not know when to quit fighting.

source: - Paulette Jiles (2003). “Enemy Women”

Topics: Fighting, Men, Quitting

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And she understood, all by herself, without reading it in a novel or hearing it on a radio program, that falling passionately in love with someone, without reservation or holding back, was good for the heart. For its valves and its arteries and that invisible shadow of the heart clled the soul. Falling in love was good for the soul.

Topics: Falling In Love, Reading, Heart, Valve, Holding Back

Anne DeGrace is a gifted story teller and Far From Home contains some of her most intriguing characters. Thoroughly enjoyable.

Topics: Character, Home, Stories

Paper Matches My aunts washed dishes while the uncles squirted each other on the lawn with garden hoses. Why are we in here, I said, and they are out there? That’s the way it is, said Aunt Hetty, the shriveled-up one. I have the rages that small animals have, being small, being animal. Written on me was a message, “At Your Service,” like a book of paper matches. One by one we were taken out and struck. We come bearing supper, our heads on fire.

source: - Paulette Jiles (1988). “Blackwater”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

Topics: Uncles, Book, Taken, Small Animals

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