The public loves to create a hero....Sometimes I think they do it for the sheer joy of knocking him down from the highest peak. Like a child who builds a house of blocks and then destroys it with one vicious… — 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
