“If God was going to do what He thought was best anyway, why bother to ask for anything one wanted? If you prayed, and God thought that what you asked should be granted, He would grant it. If you did… — Grace Metalious Copy Share Image
“...and often Lisa thought bitterly of the ideas she had held on "college life" before coming to Denton, ideas and images culled from a… — Grace Metalious Copy Share Image
I have seldom, if ever, seen money and gentleness go hand in hand. — Grace Metalious Copy Share Image
There can be neither beauty, nor trust, nor security between a man and a woman if there is not truth. — Grace Metalious Copy Share Image
“Indian summer is like a woman. Ripe, hotly passionate, but fickle, she comes and goes as she pleases so that one is never sure… — Grace Metalious Copy Share Image
Dead folks can't hurt you none. It's the ones that are alive, you have to watch out for. — Grace Metalious Copy Share Image
Even Tom Sawyer had a girlfriend and to talk about adults without talking about their sex drives is like talking about a window without… — Grace Metalious Copy Share Image
If every man, ...ceased to hate and blame every other man for his own failures and shortcomings, we would see the end of every… — Grace Metalious Copy Share Image
“It was as if each of them sensed vaguely that the Saturday afternoons of youth are few, and precious, and this feeling which neither… — Grace Metalious Copy Share Image
“Did it ever occur to you, Charlie, that tolerance can reach a point where it is no longer tolerance? When that happens, the noble-sounding… — Grace Metalious Copy Share Image
“I'm a lousy writer; a helluva lot of people have got lousy taste.” — Grace Metalious Copy Share Image
Didn't you ever notice how it's always people who wish they had somethin' or had done somethin' that hate the hardest? — Grace Metalious Copy Share Image
“If God was going to do what He thought was best anyway, why bother to ask for anything one wanted? If you prayed, and… — Grace Metalious Copy Share Image
