69 Quotes by Vera Jane Cook

Summer was a gift bestowed upon the survivors of winter’s wrath, even when the wind lay still and burning fire wood scented the air, it was always the promise of summer following, the awaited favorite season, the hope of it and the joy, the green grass smell of it, the free barefoot days of it that beckoned the winter weary forward.

Nobody could understand the past except the people from it.

Air hung heavy like wet clothes caught flapping in the rain made it hard to breathe.

Morning sounds came in through my window like the world made sense.

They looked over stimulated by something that had distracted them from their usual boredom and lazy egocentric paragraphs about nothing at all that ever held any interest for me.

Daddy looked at me like I was as dumb as fake ice cream.

The devil is a gentleman in disguise, Bessie.

Her childhood friend had decided that a man was the only thing that could come between them.

Jealousy is a human emotion,” she said with a smile. “If you weren’t jealous if another man flirted with me I’d be terribly disappointed.