#southern

On 'Justified,' we're driving all around Southern California trying to find a location that we can call Kentucky. ↗

— Timothy Olyphant

#california #call #driving #find #justified

I think we Southerners have talked a fair amount of malarkey about the mystique of being Southern. ↗

— Reynolds Price

#amount #being #fair #i #i think

To this day the Arab influence is evident in southern Italy, northern Africa and, above all, in Spain. ↗

— Carroll Quigley

#africa #arab #day #evident #influence

My mother was a Democrat - southern Democrat, y'all. ↗

— Nancy Reagan

#mother #southern

Southerners are also like ethnic groups in that they have a sense of group identity. ↗

— John Shelton Reed

#ethnic #ethnic groups #group #groups #identity

Kaldar smiled at her. Now there was a work of art. If she were just a girl and he were just a man, and they met at a party, that smile would've guaranteed him a date. The man was hot. There was no doubt. But right now, all it would get him was a solid punch in those even teeth. Audrey laughed. "Aren't you sweet? Tell me, do girls usually throw their panties at you when you do that?" He grinned wider, and she glimpsed the funny evil spark in his eyes. "Do men throw money when you do your little Southern belle? ↗

— Ilona Andrews

#fate-s-edge #ilona-andrews #kaldar #southern-belle #the-edge

The decor was attractive and strong, but blander than she would have thought his wealth and position afforded him. Caren couldn't see the point of having that much money if all of it led to beige. ↗

— Attica Locke

#humor #southern #style #wealth #money

Whenever I’m asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I say it is because we are still able to recognize one. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#writer

With time, grief has a way of slipping down in the crevices of your heart. It never really leaves; it just makes room for more. ↗

— Nancy B. Brewer

#historical-romance #southern-women #historical

I'm a Southern girl. I like when they open the door and pull out a chair. I'm really into a man's man. ↗

— Brooke Burns

#door #girl #i #into #like