62 Quotes by Dorothea Benton Frank

Please. Don’t use the Lord’s name, unless you’re in prayer. It’s a hundred years in purgatory.

You could tell a lot about the soul of an organization by the reading material in its waiting area.

I would talk to him over breakfast and try to gauge how he was handling his life. Life is a struggle, I would tell him. Some days are better than others, and every person’s life is bittersweet, filled with joy and pain.

Maybe it was what I needed too. For all those years I told myself.

Yeah, I know.” The poor girl. I felt very bad.

No,” I said and smiled. “I just happen to like the taste of that particular grape.” “Oh?” “Yeah. I think chardonnays are too oaky and heavy and German wines are too sweet. But if my roommate and I are sharing a bottle of something, it’s usually on sale.

Funny how something that seemed so insignificant, just an old bowl with faded glazed stripes, could trigger so many memories.

What was that old story about how women had a better chance of being abducted by aliens than they did getting married after forty?