Not a Drop to Drink
mindy mcginnis
Top 10 Best Quotes
“There's a famous line from a poem about the ocean," Mother had finally said to end the discussion. "'Water water every where, but not a drop to drink.”
“Do you want to die like this?" Mother had asked, that night and every night since then. Lynn's answer never changed. "No." And Mother's response, their evening prayer. "Then you will have to kill.”
“Regret was for people with nothing to defend, people who had no water.”
“You can't change the things you've done. It's now and the here on out you've got control of.”
“There's different ways of doing things wrong, Lynn, and not all of it is choosing to hurt others. Sometimes it's the things you don't do that make you feel the worst.”
“Type of men who gather up seven of themselves to attack two women in the middle of the night generally won't go back for dead friends.”
“Why do you always quote poetry at me when all I want is a straight answer?”
“Just know that there's bad men in the world, and dying fast by your mother is a better way than theirs.”
“Things have changed," Mother answered, her gaze drawn to the southern horizon. "So we change with them.”
“Where you go, he'll go," Stebbs said. "I know it." "Tough caring about people, isn't it?" ... "Wouldn't trade it," she said.”
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Book Keywords:
caring, love, people, change, it-is-what-it-is, past
