“...and often Lisa thought bitterly of the ideas she had held on "college life" before coming to Denton, ideas and images culled… — Grace Metalious College life Copy Share Image
I have seldom, if ever, seen money and gentleness go hand in hand. — Grace Metalious Gentleness 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 Beauty 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… — Grace Metalious Indian summer 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 Alive 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… — Grace Metalious Girlfriend 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… — Grace Metalious Blame 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… — Grace Metalious Afternoons 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,… — Grace Metalious Tolerance Copy Share Image
“I'm a lousy writer; a helluva lot of people have got lousy taste.” — Grace Metalious Writing 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 Done 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… — Grace Metalious God Copy Share Image
“Give me a child until he is seven, thought Tom, and he is forever after mine. When the Fascists say it, they're… — Grace Metalious Children Copy Share Image
If I'm a lousy writer, then an awful lot of people have lousy taste. — Grace Metalious Awful Copy Share Image
How easy it is, how dangerously easy it is to hate a man for one's own inadequacies. — Grace Metalious Easy Copy Share Image
“She saw hopelessness as an old enemy, as persistent and inevitable as death.” — Grace Metalious Death Copy Share Image
The public loves to create a hero....Sometimes I think they do it for the sheer joy of knocking him down from the… — Grace Metalious Block Copy Share Image
To talk about adults without talking about their sex drives is like talking about a window without glass. — Grace Metalious About Copy Share Image
Nude is a word as smoooth as your hips ... but naked has the sound of a rock being turned over to… — Grace Metalious Hips Copy Share Image
