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“Cities are judged by their richest inhabitants and rural areas are judged”
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Sharyn McCrumb
Source : Sharyn McCrumb (2013). “The Ballad of Frankie Silver: A Ballad Novel”, p.395, Macmillan
#Cities Quotes
#Judging Quotes
#Rural Areas Quotes
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“Maybe staying single meant that you never had to grow up.”
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Sharyn McCrumb
#Growing Up Quotes
#Singles Quotes
#Staying Single Quotes
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“Trying to act normal is the most unnatural behavior of all.”
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Sharyn McCrumb
Source : Sharyn McCrumb (2010). “Lovely in Her Bones”, p.39, Ballantine Books
#Trying Quotes
#Normal Quotes
#Behavior Quotes
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“Nobody has time to write a book. Some people just do it anyhow.”
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Sharyn McCrumb
#Book Quotes
#Writing Quotes
#People Quotes
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“It couldn't be the beer. Donnie McRory was certain of that. If you sent American beer out to be analyzed, the lab would probably phone up and say, 'Your horse has diabetes.”
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Sharyn McCrumb
Source : Sharyn McCrumb (2010). “Bimbos of the Death Sun”, p.86, RosettaBooks
#Horse Quotes
#Beer Quotes
#Phones Quotes
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“All babies are incoherent, but they grow up. That is the principle difference between an infant and a poet.”
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Sharyn McCrumb
#Baby Quotes
#Growing Up Quotes
#Differences Quotes
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“Life seems to be a choice between two wrong answers.”
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Sharyn McCrumb
#Life Quotes
#Two Quotes
#Choices Quotes
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“You take a handful of rocks and put them in a jar. Then once a week, you take one tiny pebble out of the jar and throw it away. When the jar is empty, why, you'll just about be over your grief. ... Time alone will do if you're short on rocks.”
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Sharyn McCrumb
Source : Sharyn McCrumb (2010). “Lovely in Her Bones”, p.136, Ballantine Books
#Grief Quotes
#Rocks Quotes
#Over You Quotes
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“Elvis is bound to be dead. Look at all the vultures in his vicinity.”
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Sharyn McCrumb
#Looks Quotes
#Vulture Quotes
#Vicinity Quotes
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“Domestic rabbits don't have the sense that God promised animal crackers.”
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Sharyn McCrumb
#Animal Quotes
#Rabbits Quotes
#Crackers Quotes
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“anger is more productive than fear.”
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Sharyn McCrumb
#Anger Quotes
#Productive Quotes
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“Some people are born to fit the times.”
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Sharyn McCrumb
#People Quotes
#Fit Quotes
#Born Quotes
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“If it had taught them nothing else, twenty years of living past high school had taught them self-preservation. ... No one was going to risk putting his ego on the line; they would come prepared with dates, flattering clothes, and a well-rehearsed, carefully edited biography. They would all be kind to each other. High school was enough torture for one lifetime.”
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Sharyn McCrumb
#School Quotes
#Past Quotes
#Self Quotes
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“Half magic is no magic at all.”
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Sharyn McCrumb
#Magic Quotes
#Half Quotes
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“Romulan or Vulcan?' the ushers asked each guest. Marion, who had been poised to say 'friends of the bride' had responded to the question with an open-mouthed stare, and Jay Omega answered, 'Klingon!" which got them seats in the back row of the Romulan side.”
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Sharyn McCrumb
#Guests Quotes
#Sides Quotes
#Staring Quotes
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“Boondocks' is simply the Tagalog word for mountains.”
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Sharyn McCrumb
Source : Sharyn McCrumb (2010). “The Devil Amongst the Lawyers: A Ballad Novel”, p.52, Macmillan
#Mountain Quotes
#Boondocks Quotes
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“High school and equality are forever incompatible.”
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Sharyn McCrumb
#School Quotes
#High School Quotes
#Forever Quotes
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“Machines seem to sense that I am afraid of them. It makes them hostile.”
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Sharyn McCrumb
Source : Sharyn McCrumb (2010). “Windsor Knot”, p.107, Ballantine Books
#Machines Quotes
#Hostile Quotes
#Seems Quotes
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“I wonder which is worse-the death, not knowing what comes after, or the wedding, when you think you know, but you're wrong.”
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Sharyn McCrumb
#Thinking Quotes
#Knowing Quotes
#Wonder Quotes
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“SHADOW KNIGHT'S MATE is a compelling story, extremely well-written and alarmingly plausible. Jay Brandon does for politics what Dan Brown did for religion.”
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Sharyn McCrumb
#Knights Quotes
#Shadow Quotes
#Doe Quotes
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