Quotes from Mary Kay Andrews

In times like these, I think it's a good policy to hope for the best, but expect the worst.

Don't look over your shoulder. The past is past. Just try to get through it, and give yourself some grace.

Sometimes you have to trust your heart, too. You give what you think the other person needs, and hope they know that you're doing it out of love.

He'd died his blond hair purple in honor of his best friend's wedding, and he wore skinny white jeans, a red shirt, and

she felt the past come rushing back with a ferocity that nearly knocked her down. And it struck her, this was not just a flare-up she was experiencing, not just a bout of spring fever. This was full-blown passion.

Old wounds. They faded, but they never really went away, did they?

A house is just a bunch of lumber and nails, Hattie. It's just a thing. Never fall in love with anything that can't love you back.

You couldn't hit the ball with a steam iron today

I can't wrangle bees. I'm terrified of stinging insects. Literally. I break out in hives." "Hives! That's adorbs, right?

Motherhood, Letty reflected, was the most exhausting thing she'd ever done. She adored her niece, but bearing sole responsibility for another human's well-being was overwhelming. Not to mention terrifying.

Carrot and stick," she said, nodding. "Wave it under his nose and start walking. Works every time with old men, mules, and dogs.

I smoothed my grandmother's starched white damask cloth over the battered pine harvest table in the dining room, and with my fingertips, traced the tiny patches where she'd so painstakingly mended it. If I looked closely, and I did, I could see the faintest ghost outlines of stains from family dinners long ago.

truck driver, but mostly earning

Whole new level of bullshit, more like," CeeJay said. "What a waste of a penis that guy is.

I sold him the house, if you want to know." "Maybe I'll buy it back, when I sell my screenplay.

Mom! It was so awesome," Maggy enthused. "Me and Roo had our own hurricane party. The seagulls were, like, flying backward. And the clouds are so thick, you can't even see Big Belle.