Quotes from Bette Greene

Sometimes when a person be thinking about one thing it don't mean they is mad about another thing.

Folks keep forgetting that wishing don't make nothing so, but prayer sometimes do.

Maybe...in a way, this coffee reminds me of something. Maybe...maybe only a philosopher or a mad man would make this connection, but it's a little like life. I mean it's powerful going down and that doesn't even take into account the aftertaste, which really takes getting used to.

Six years is plenty long enough to soothe the tearing anguish of...death, but maybe no amount of time is enough to soothe something that is no longer there. Something like an emptiness that can never be filled because it's only a bit of space carved out of air.

But will somebody please tell me what's a person to do when they're too afraid of life to live and too afraid of death to die?

Longevity can't be the only test of love.

That's when I saw—cleary saw—that there was more than one mountain in my life. Some could be seen and some couldn't be, but just the same, they were all out there. All out there waiting for me.

The secret is in absolutely refusing to let the river beat you down.

But you, Pearl, never liked anything once it was yours.

One thing you can say about him is that he's appreciative. He's just happy having someone to sit with.

My father chose acquiescence and life rather than resistance and death. Not a very admirable choice, but a very human one.

Look inside yourself and you'll find a world of things (a world of your own experiences)worth writing about.

Longevity can't be the only test of love.

I love Arkansas but I think Arkansas has its share of unlit minds.

It's not really rewarding trying to fathom what people will think. Particularly people who have demonstrated a lifetime aversion to thinking.

I was hooked on writing. I mean, where else can you get paid for sticking your nose into somebody else's business?

Experiencing life through a book can help you learn without all the pain of going through the experiences first hand.

My deception was believed because it was built on a foundation of truth … Hitler's first layer is an undeniable truth, such as: The German workers are poor. The second layer is divided equally between flattery and truth: The German worker deserves to be prosperous. The third layer is fabrication: The Jews and the Communists and Jews have stolen what is rightfully yours.

Concern might be a little like love.

To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven.

I think maybe good changes will come when our leaders are better and there aren't any more evil dictators.

A person's got to think, otherwise that person's no better than a trained seal balancing a ball on his nose.

So I went back outside to wait…and to sing.

When people's emotions are involved they don't want to listen.