Life Quote by Frances O'Roark Dowell

“When I think about everything that's happened since school started, well, I don't think the word 'normal' applies to any of it. Verbena is…

— Frances O'Roark Dowell

“I have to say, it felt good to be wanted, son. Felt real good.”

— Frances O'Roark Dowell

“What filled the rooms of Grete's cottage so decidedly were woven baskets and wooden boxes and clay pots glazed in red and blue, each…

— Frances O'Roark Dowell

“That was a funny thing about friends, Marylin thought. You could know a person practically your whole life and she could still surprise you.”

— Frances O'Roark Dowell

“Dream girl? Ain't such a thing. You walk, you talk, you got mammary glands, well, that's gonna do it right there for most guys.”

— Frances O'Roark Dowell

“Granny sat down on the step and stared off into the trees. "That girl right there, she was my only child. I have lost…

— Frances O'Roark Dowell

A friend is someone whose face you can see in the dark.

— Frances O'Roark Dowell

“Perhaps you'll apprentice to a healer when you're older," Grete suggested. "I'd say you have the gift for it." Hen reddened, then seemed suddenly…

— Frances O'Roark Dowell

Stars. Trees breathe in starlight year after year, and it goes deep into their bones. So when you cut a tree open, you smell…

— Frances O'Roark Dowell

“My dad, who my mom always refers to as DH for Darling Husband, was protrayed as a 'let's look on the bright side of…

— Frances O'Roark Dowell

“I'm not done arguing with you, Mrs.Fletcher. I'm going to convince you yet." "Well I reckon I got ten or twenty more years in…

— Frances O'Roark Dowell

“You gonna stand in my backyard and ignore me to my face?”

— Frances O'Roark Dowell