Sharyn McCrumb Quotes

• Cities are judged by their richest inhabitants and rural areas are judged

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  Cities, Judging, Rural Areas

  Sharyn McCrumb (2013). “The Ballad of Frankie Silver: A Ballad Novel”, p.395, Macmillan

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• Maybe staying single meant that you never had to grow up.

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  Growing Up, Singles, Staying Single

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• Nobody has time to write a book. Some people just do it anyhow.

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  Book, Writing, People

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• Trying to act normal is the most unnatural behavior of all.

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  Trying, Normal, Behavior

  Sharyn McCrumb (2010). “Lovely in Her Bones”, p.39, Ballantine Books

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• It couldn't be the beer. Donnie McRory was certain of that. If you sent American beer out to be analyzed, the lab would probably phone up and say, 'Your horse has diabetes.

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  Horse, Beer, Phones

  Sharyn McCrumb (2010). “Bimbos of the Death Sun”, p.86, RosettaBooks

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• You take a handful of rocks and put them in a jar. Then once a week, you take one tiny pebble out of the jar and throw it away. When the jar is empty, why, you'll just about be over your grief. ... Time alone will do if you're short on rocks.

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  Grief, Rocks, Over You

  Sharyn McCrumb (2010). “Lovely in Her Bones”, p.136, Ballantine Books

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• All babies are incoherent, but they grow up. That is the principle difference between an infant and a poet.

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  Baby, Growing Up, Differences

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• Life seems to be a choice between two wrong answers.

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  Life, Two, Choices

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• Elvis is bound to be dead. Look at all the vultures in his vicinity.

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  Looks, Vulture, Vicinity

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• Domestic rabbits don't have the sense that God promised animal crackers.

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  Animal, Rabbits, Crackers

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• anger is more productive than fear.

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  Anger, Productive

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• Some people are born to fit the times.

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  People, Fit, Born

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• If it had taught them nothing else, twenty years of living past high school had taught them self-preservation. ... No one was going to risk putting his ego on the line; they would come prepared with dates, flattering clothes, and a well-rehearsed, carefully edited biography. They would all be kind to each other. High school was enough torture for one lifetime.

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  School, Past, Self

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• Half magic is no magic at all.

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  Magic, Half

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• Romulan or Vulcan?' the ushers asked each guest. Marion, who had been poised to say 'friends of the bride' had responded to the question with an open-mouthed stare, and Jay Omega answered, 'Klingon!" which got them seats in the back row of the Romulan side.

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  Guests, Sides, Staring

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• Boondocks' is simply the Tagalog word for mountains.

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  Mountain, Boondocks

  Sharyn McCrumb (2010). “The Devil Amongst the Lawyers: A Ballad Novel”, p.52, Macmillan

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• High school and equality are forever incompatible.

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  School, High School, Forever

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• Machines seem to sense that I am afraid of them. It makes them hostile.

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  Machines, Hostile, Seems

  Sharyn McCrumb (2010). “Windsor Knot”, p.107, Ballantine Books

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• I wonder which is worse-the death, not knowing what comes after, or the wedding, when you think you know, but you're wrong.

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  Thinking, Knowing, Wonder

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• SHADOW KNIGHT'S MATE is a compelling story, extremely well-written and alarmingly plausible. Jay Brandon does for politics what Dan Brown did for religion.

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  Knights, Shadow, Doe

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