Lesley Kagen

“...things can happen when you least expect them so you always gotta be prepared. And pay attention to the details. The devil…

— Lesley Kagen

“Life, it is not simple like a garden, where flowers are always flowers and weeds are always weeds.”

— Lesley Kagen

“I know from vast experience that fear talks a lot louder than courage. I need to listen to that other voice inside…

— Lesley Kagen

“...[Joseph] and the Virgin Mary got turned away from the inn and had to go sleep in the manger. (Not with the…

— Lesley Kagen

“Troo hits the hay every night like a bale falling out of our old barn loft.”

— Lesley Kagen

“People can be so cruel to the different.”

— Lesley Kagen

“...And he shouldn't have talked to Mama in the hurtful ways he did neither. Calling her despicable names because she wanted to…

— Lesley Kagen

“When I was sure she was asleep, I got up and went into Mother's room and pulled her yellow nightie out from…

— Lesley Kagen

“...things happen when you least expect them. Things that can change your whole life.”

— Lesley Kagen

“His mean justified his end.”

— Lesley Kagen

“So might I suggest at your earliest convenience that you pay a visit to the Okins Funeral Salon to make arrangements?" "Why'd…

— Lesley Kagen

“--I wouldn't throw that cat out of bed. --When did you get a cat?”

— Lesley Kagen

“Grievers’ hearts can only take so much before they bust into a million little pieces.”

— Lesley Kagen

“Ethel Jackson was the cool side of my pillow when I had a fever.”

— Lesley Kagen

“If only. -- You got to admit, standing alone those words are pretty awful, but married together like that, they must be…

— Lesley Kagen

“THINGS TO DO THIS SUMMER 1. Make Father Mickey lose his black Irish temper. 2. Wear a turtleneck, take in a deep…

— Lesley Kagen

Let bygones be bygones because everybody knew that forgiveness was divine.

— Lesley Kagen

“Ninety-nine bottles of beer on the wall, ninety-nine bottles of beer... If one of those bottles should happen to fall, there'd be…

— Lesley Kagen

“My arms were covered in scratches and had bled a little so I licked my finger and cleaned them off and thought…

— Lesley Kagen

“Since Troo was in her office at least once a week for doing one bad thing or another, Sister told me she's…

— Lesley Kagen

“Eddie's ma, that would be Mrs. Callahan, her husband got killed last winter over at the Feelin' Good Cookie Factory. They had…

— Lesley Kagen

“If we could find Sara's body, we'd probably get a reward and our pictures in the newspaper like Mary Lane did when…

— Lesley Kagen

“I know some first-class Negroes. I also know some second-rate white people.”

— Lesley Kagen

“Nobody can get at your heart once it's lying six feet under.”

— Lesley Kagen

“Troo's a little in front of me bouncing a red rubber ball that she 'borrowed' from the playground shed. She's warming up…

— Lesley Kagen