Quotes from Carolyn McSparren

The line between stupid teenaged behavior that causes an end to teenaged lives and stupid teenaged behavior that turns into a prank is very thin. Kids

BACK IN THE Pleistocene era when I went to vet school, female students were a rarity and not a blessed one.

you are an eagle among canaries. You were born to soar.

His small features huddled in the center of his round face like the holes in a bowling ball.

The male students stole my equipment and tried unsuccessfully to sabotage my lab work. They told endless filthy jokes and cussed extensively whenever I was within earshot. I learned not to react. They made passes that stopped just short of actual assault. One charmer pinched my rear end so hard I had a bruise on my rump for a week. After I stomped his instep he never did it again.

Happiness takes an effort of will,

I can still aim and fire a pastry gun of filling into a deviled egg straighter and faster than Wyatt Earp ever shot his .45.

Banks of azaleas ranging from bright orange to palest pink rioted in the spring gardens.

A surprising number of owners never touch the horses they own. Some, like Mrs. Benson, are afraid of them.

Did I want to be a Cotton Carnival princess? Hardly. My parents had struggled to send me to a private school with most of the girls who were princesses of old, established country clubs, that had been sending princesses to Carnival for donkey's years.