Faith Sullivan Quotes

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Black was my favorite. The most sophisticated flavor in jelly beans, someone once told me.

Faith Sullivan

In a little place like Harvester, the past never became history, but sat side by side with current events, like an old woman pushing in among the young ones, insisting on being a part of things.

Faith Sullivan

Had she a family crest, Bess had once told her, the motto would read, 'On the Other Hand...'

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Desiree was her old self. No, not her old self. You were never your old self after someone died. You were a new, sort of scarred-over self.

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Old age was a forced retreat. You carried with you as much of what you had been as you could. Some of it — often the best of it — you had to abandon.

Faith Sullivan

Not everything in church is truth... And not all truth turns up in church.

Faith Sullivan

It was the sort of night when you think you could lie in the snow until morning and never get cold.

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Every family had its scandals sooner or later. The sure knowledge that this was true made living in a small town bearable.

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You couldn't talk yourself into love any more than you could talk yourelf out of it.

Faith Sullivan

I'm making out with a dead girl in my dreams. I'm screwing women I have no business screwing. I'm pushing away the one person who actually gives a damn about me. It's like the Bermuda Triangle of heartache and I'm sinking fast.

Faith Sullivan

Poverty made me feel weak, as if I were coming down with an awful, debilitating, communicable disease - the disease of being without money. Instead of going to the hospital, you went to the poor farm. The difference was, you never got well at the poor farm.

Faith Sullivan