Sheri Holman quotes
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“It's the greatest of Southern honors . . . to have one's name incorporated into a family tree. It's an honor not lightly given.”
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“Every four years we go through the same cycle of hope and disillusionment.”
-- Sheri HolmanSource : Sheri Holman (2007). “The Mammoth Cheese”, p.455, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
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“Good and Evil are opposite points on a circle, Dr. Chiver. Greater good is just halfway back to Bad.”
-- Sheri HolmanSource : Sheri Holman (2010). “The Dress Lodger”, p.266, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
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“No woman kills herself for love, and rarely for shame. It is the cruelty of hope that does a woman in; for no matter how many men a woman has given herself to, she never holds her life cheap until she foolishly believed it to be valued.”
-- Sheri HolmanSource : Sheri Holman (2010). “The Dress Lodger”, p.234, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
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“Stephanie Kallos's lovely and heartfelt first novel is a gift. A story of broken hearts and broken promises, it is also the story of the ways we put things back together-messily, beautifully, and ultimately triumphantly. Kallos is a writer to watch, and one who, mercifully, still believes in happy endings.”
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“If she'd spaced her children out and had eleven babies in eleven years, she would have been no better than her own mother and sisters: irresponsible, a welfare cheat, another bit of Sawdust Lane white trash. But as luck would have it, she'd had them all at once, and now she was, overnight, middle-class. And respectable.”
-- Sheri HolmanSource : Sheri Holman (2007). “The Mammoth Cheese”, p.89, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
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“Horror hostess, bondage goddess, Charles Addams cartoon comes to life, Vampire was every first-generation fanboy's wet dream. Scott Poole takes us on an unforgettable ride through the overlapping underworlds of B&D magazines, Hollywood noir, and early political liberation movements that inspired actress Maila Nurmi to challenge a postwar culture bent on stifling women's choices, bodies, and desires. This book is a subversive masterpiece.”
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“The oldOld winds that blewWhen chaos was, what doThey tell the clattered trees that IShould weep?”
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“The tree of life for me is a symbol of abundance and eternal life.”
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Source : Belle Boyd (1865). “Belle Boyd in Camp and Prison”, p.53
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