Holler
Allie Ray
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Then came July like three o'clock in the afternoon, hot and listless and miserable.”
“Spring was coming, either way, even in nasty old March---in like a lion, out like a lamb. That's what folks say. But that year, it came less like a lion and more like a mule with a skittish streak and muscly haunches; one solid kick and that was all. One hard, white freeze and that was all.”
“He said, "Go and sin no more." And let me tell you, I was gonna.”
“You don't got to pull me back up, Preacher. It's just as well you hold me down beneath the waters.”
“When you're burning inside and burning outside, hot and crazy, that's the time---that's always the time---when a traveling revivalist preacher-man come to town.”
“What in the hell has gotten into you?" Jean-Louise shoted. "Have you been possessed by a roving spirit of stupidity?”
“Well. You look like shit," she said. "I love you, too, baby." Her eyes narrowed harder. "I reckon there's nothing to say to all this." "Don't fret now, sugar. You'll think of something. You always do.”
“Well. Don't let a good thing slip away. The heart wants what the heart wants, after all." Well, the heart didn't want Beau Hanger.”
“Was I to go on living forever in love with a man who had no care for me, and never had? Was that what he wrote in the dedication? I hadn't lived my whole life. I was only twenty-two years old; and was I to love him for the rest of it, miserable and lonesome? Was that what James Sutton thought of Ozark women---women like me? That we just go on and on for want and never do find peace? He had us all wrong. At least, he had me all wrong.”
“Though last I heard, the Devil ain't an old Southern woman. Thank God for that.”
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summer, baptism, july, preacher-man, southern-woman, listlessness, march, spring, temptation, southerners, mule, southern-women, banter, devil, sin, stupidity-of-man
