Quotes from Sugar

“ 'Sugar, aint you ever had no good time?' she said with a bit of sadness in her voice.
'What you mean?' Sugar said,...
'Seems to me that I ain't never see you look up from whatever you were doing and just smile.'
'Just smile? Smile at what? At who?'
'Smile into the air, girl!' she said and waved her arm through the air....you better start, 'cause time is running and a life without good times ain't a life worth having.”
― Bernice L. McFadden, quote from Sugar

“When things were bad, time had a habit of taking its time to pass, making sure you experienced every painful moment. When things were good and contentment abundant, time moved like the wind, hurrying precious moments along and forcing things that normally require nurturing to grow and forge quickly.”
― Bernice L. McFadden, quote from Sugar

“But grief let loose from a woman who lost a child—that was the worst type of grief of all.”
― Bernice L. McFadden, quote from Sugar

“Baby, everybody got their own reasons for doing things they do in life. It don’t matter what her reason was at the time, what matters is she come back for you, and even though you might think it’s too late, it ain’t never too late where a mother and her child is concerned.”
― Bernice L. McFadden, quote from Sugar

“Joe lulls the man into the afterlife, places his head gently on the ground, closes the lids over his empty eyes, retrieves his gun and continues to fight for a freedom he would never be fully entitled to.”
― Bernice L. McFadden, quote from Sugar

“Baby, everybody got their own reasons for doing things they do in life.”
― Bernice L. McFadden, quote from Sugar

“Sugar ain’t spoiled, she just a little bruised, is all. Bruises can heal and fade away to nothing.”
― Bernice L. McFadden, quote from Sugar

“What kinda women you is? You gonna let a man lay up on another woman in your own house and not do nothing about it?”
― Bernice L. McFadden, quote from Sugar

“You see, no one ever told her to keep her legs closed and crossed at the ankles. No one ever said: “Save it for the one you love” or “Good girls say no.”
― Bernice L. McFadden, quote from Sugar

“Keeping her man well fed and fucked are number one priorities that she can’t slack on because you can never know when a woman dressed to the nines with a blond wig, long legs and a high fat ass that should have been equal to you in almost every way may decide to hop on the first southbound Greyhound and end up looking at you through whispering letters on a dusty storefront window.”
― Bernice L. McFadden, quote from Sugar

“There’s a little bit of hooker in every woman. A little bit of hooker and a little bit of God.” —Sarah Miles”
― Bernice L. McFadden, quote from Sugar

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“Although what I have basically been doing about the rain is ignoring it, to tell the truth.
How I do that is by walking in it.
I did not fail to notice that those last two sentences must certainly look like a contradiction, by the way.
Even if they are on such thing.
One can very agreeably ignore a rain by walking in it.
In fact it is when one allows a rain to prevent one from walking in it that one is failing to ignore it.”
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“But Mondays and Fridays were just twenty-four-hour stretches of time with different names.”
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“I love autumn. It’s so much richer than spring.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from The Hollow

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“Never mind that. What's going on with you and Heath?"

Annabelle pulled a little wide-eyed innocence out of her rusty bag of college acting skills.
"What do you mean? Business."

"Don't give me that. We've been friends too long."

She switched to a furrowed brow. "He's my most important client. You know how much this means to me."

Molly wasn't buying it. "I've seen the way you look at him. Like he was a slot machine with triple sevens tattooed on his forehead. If you fall in love with him, I swear I'll never speak to
you again."

Annabelle nearly choked. She'd known Molly would be suspicious, but she hadn't expected an outright confrontation. "Are you nuts? Setting aside the fact that he treats me like a flunky, I'd never fall for a workaholic after what I've had to go through with my family." Falling in lust, however, was an entirely different matter.

"He has a calculator for a heart," Molly said.
"I thought you liked him.”
― Susan Elizabeth Phillips, quote from Match Me If You Can

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