Quote by Deborah Ford

“How was Savannah supposed to pretend this glamorous life was what she’d always known? She was from a slummy neighborhood in a town outside…

— Michelle Madow

“He was a newspaperman,' he said, 'but there's some people who should never leave Savannah.”

— Pete Dexter

“It seemed any young woman at odds with her place in life--be she a genteel lady or a serving girl--might find a happier home…

— Tessa Dare

“As I walked down the extremely narrow hall of my not-so-mobile home, passing over the pale yellow linoleum curling up so that it no…

— Michael Lister

“She read to find out what it was like to be French or Russian in the nineteenth century, to be a rich New Yorker…

— Penelope Lively

“...as she drove along this road with all its memories, she put out of her mind the things that had been worrying her. For…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“Who are you, Martin Eden? he demanded of himself in the looking- glass, that night when he got back to his room. He gazed…

— Jack London

“Anyone who’s spent time below the Mason-Dixon line knows this truth: Southern women are anything but ordinary. Our unique, often unspoken code of conduct…

— Deborah Ford

“Lived in Chicago, survived in New York, brooded in Detroit, floundered in lots of places, arrived here late, after living in libraries around the…

— Ray Bradbury

“ When a Southern woman has nothing else, she still has her manners. ”

— Deborah Ford

“They’re not really homes. More like houses where we sleep. Where we eat—if we’re lucky. Where we cry and fight. Where we bleed and…

— Chelsea Fine

“She ponders the transmigrations from southern latitudes. the millions moving north. What happens to their languages? The warm burial grounds they leave behind? What…

— Cristina García