If she'd spaced her children out and had eleven babies in eleven years, she would have been no better than her own mother and sisters: irresponsible, a welfare cheat, another bit of Sawdust Lane white trash. But as luck would… — Sheri Holman Copy Share Image
“...the women are drinking and laughing inside somewhere, Wallis guesses, as manless as these men are without women.” — Sheri Holman Copy Share
It's the greatest of Southern honors . . . to have one's name incorporated into a family tree. It's an honor not lightly given. — Sheri Holman Copy Share
“This is what making love must be like, she thinks. At twelve years old, she understands little more than that it will begin with… — Sheri Holman Copy Share
“[N]ames were what you wore forever, and she felt that she'd sent her daughters out in tacky rabbit fur coats when they should have… — Sheri Holman Copy Share
“[H]e went ahead and named them without her, pulling from the spiral notebook of names they'd been collecting, putting together first and middle names… — Sheri Holman Copy Share
“He loved that she eschewed cursive for print, as he did. Cursive, more than anything, betrayed a person's age.” — Sheri Holman Copy Share
Good and Evil are opposite points on a circle, Dr. Chiver. Greater good is just halfway back to Bad. — Sheri Holman Copy Share
“All the Baptist churches she's ever visited smelled of the same sweat and boredom.” — Sheri Holman Copy Share
“God must feel the same at the end of a long day. Stop trying to make Me happy with all that ritual up and… — Sheri Holman Copy Share
“Life must have sucked growing up without TV." "Back then people could wait a few days to learn about all the things they couldn't… — Sheri Holman Copy Share
If she'd spaced her children out and had eleven babies in eleven years, she would have been no better than her own mother and… — Sheri Holman Copy Share
“I learned something in the years I spent among suicide bombers. . . The boys and girls who are willing to blow up their… — Sheri Holman Copy Share
