Quotes from My Old True Love

Sheila Kay Adams ·  288 pages

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“I asked Granny one time if she thought green might be God's favorite color since he'd made so many shades of it.”
― Sheila Kay Adams, quote from My Old True Love


“Some people is born at the start of a long hard row to hoe. Well, I am older than God's dog and been in this world a long time and it seems to me that right from the git-go, Larkin Stanton had the longest and hardest row I've ever seen.”
― Sheila Kay Adams, quote from My Old True Love


“They was no slaves in Sodom unless you counted the ones what was white and female.”
― Sheila Kay Adams, quote from My Old True Love


“My mammy used to tell me that they was no such thing as dying. Said we really was just born twice’t. Once to this place, then again into the t’other. Said we entered both like newborn babies. And she said just like we waited for a baby to be born in this world, they’s folks waiting fer us to be born over yonder.”
― Sheila Kay Adams, quote from My Old True Love


“You don’t even know what you’ll miss about them. Oh, you have some notion, I reckon. You figure you’ll miss seeing them everyday, stuff like that. But, ye’ve no idea about them little things—”
― Sheila Kay Adams, quote from My Old True Love



“Course in my way of figuring, Vernon Lewis ought to have been shot a long time ago for being a fool, but if we start shooting folks for being fools then we’d be shooting right up till the end of time.”
― Sheila Kay Adams, quote from My Old True Love


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