Livin' is like pourin' water out of a tumbler into a dang Coca-Cola bottle. If'n you skeered you can't do it, you cain't. If'n you say to yourself, "By dang, I can do it!" then, by dang, you won't slosh a drop.
Cold Sassy Tree (ed. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2007) - ISBN: 9780618919710