"Cold Sassy Tree" Quotes
A young boy navigates the complexities of love and loss in a small Southern town at the turn of the 20th century.
fiction | 406 pages | Published in 2007
Quotes
A woman never knows how poor and unlovely she is until she has seen her sisters in the foreign parts.
Nobody can do love better than a Southerner.
Folks in this town spend all their time poking into things that ain't none of their business.
The cemeteries in Cold Sassy were dueces to keep clean.
To know somebody well is to know her worst side.
You might as well take a flyer at a blackbird as wait for him to propose.
A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.
There ain't no way you can hold onto something that wants to go, you understand?
Trouble is a lot like love. You start out with it, and it's raw and exciting. Then it cools down and you taste some bitter flavors.
You don't have to hate to beat somebody.
