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This town of churches and dreams; this town I thought I would lose myself in, with its backward ways and winding roads leading to nowhere; but, I found myself instead. -Magic in the Backyard (excerpt from American Honey) ↗


— Kellie Elmore


#country #finding-yourself #inspiring #journey #literature

In 1979, I received a phone call from Ansel Adams asking me if I would be willing to consider coming to work for him. I was teaching photography in Southern California at that point. ↗


— John Sexton


#ansel #asking #california #call #coming

The Southern character is opposed to haste. Safety is of more worth than speed, and there is no hurry. ↗


— Maria Mitchell


#haste #hurry #more #opposed #safety

Well, Southerners like to eat well. You see, it's an event when it's done right. ↗


— Stan Shaw


#southerners #food

Sing me a love song in a slow, southern drawl to the tune of sunny days... ↗


— Kellie Elmore


#cute #kisses #love #quotes #relationships

By the standards of a tourist strolling past looking for a quick lunch, the place was a dive. The sign on the window was small and easy to miss, and the antique feel of the place wasn't the prepackaged, old-shit-on-the-wall nostalgia that came with so many chain restaurants. The cafe was just old, and everything about it said old. But Jon liked it that way, if only because it kept the tourists away and spared him from hearing imported ignorance when there was plenty of local ignorance to go around. ↗


— Scott B. Pruden


#humorous-quotes #immaculate-deception #satire #science-fiction #science-fiction-comedy

Apparently, once you got used to regular and spectacular sex, your body had a mind of its own (so to speak) when it was deprived of that recreation; to say nothing of missing the hugging and cuddling part. ↗


— Charlaine Harris


#southern-vampire-mysteries #vampire #sookie-stackhouse

What I think I'll do is I'll do my best to yank Debbie out of me by the roots. And then I'll turn up on your doorstep, one day when you least expect it, and I'll hope by then you will have given up on your vampire. ↗


— Charlaine Harris


#charlaine-harris #club-dead #sookie-stackhouse-series #the-southern-vampire-mysteries #true-blood

In the molten fire where he lay he could watch the slow machinations of eternity, the cosmic miracle of each second being born, eggshaped, silverplated, phallic, time thrusting itself gleaming through the worn and worthless husk of the microsecond previous, halting, beginning to show the slow and infinitesimal accreations of decay in the clocking away of life in a mechanism encoded at the moment of conception, withering, shunted aside by time's next orgasmic thrust, and all to the beating of some galactic heart, to voices, a madman's mutterings from a snare in the web of the world. ↗


— William Gay


#poetic #southern-gothic #home

Southerners love a good tale. They are born reciters, great memory retainers, diary keepers, letter exchangers . . . great talkers. ↗


— Eudora Welty


#love






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