Quote by Jesmyn Ward Download Open image ““when they used the outhouse, they pulled worms out of their butts.”” — Jesmyn Ward ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Don't open the can of worms unless you're prepared to eat the contents.” — Kiltie Jackson Copy Share Image
“Then they all surrounded the poop little animal and pulled out all his fur.” — Yei Theodora Ozaki Copy Share Image
“Never open a can of worms unless you are prepared to consume the contents.” — Alphya Cing Copy Share Image
“To be chasing after the sweet flesh, without realizing that it is simply a pretty cover for the bones. Worm food. At night, you’re… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“That is the eternal folly of man. To be chasing after the sweet flesh, without realising that it is simply a pretty cover for… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“And her dumplings were so light they would float in the air and you'd have to catch 'em to eat 'em.” — Fannie Flagg Copy Share Image
“Like an old snakebit hound wanting his own cave under a house, I wanted to go home to lick my wounds.” — J.A. Jance Copy Share Image
“he crawled on across the farmyard, keeping as low as he could, but trying to watch every direction, too. He had never thought he… — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
“The housekeeper had been there that afternoon. I could always tell because the sheets on the bed would be tucked in so tight, trying… — Tiffanie DeBartolo Copy Share Image
“And they lived horribly ever after, scaring the socks off all who fell afoul of them.” — William Steig Copy Share Image
“I besprinkled their faces with my liquid dung and forced them to leave off.” — Apuleius Copy Share Image
I wanted to write about voodoo tradition that I feel has been very important to survival of black people here: people of the African… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
I think that voodoo as a spiritual tradition has been demonized for so long in popular culture. I wanted to write against that and… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
There's so much I love about home, but then there's a lot that I can acknowledge that I dislike about home. And acknowledging that… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
“The dream of her was the glow of a spent fire on a cold night: warm and welcoming.” — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
The first writer that I think of immediately that I studied with at Michigan is Peter Ho Davies. He was really important to me,… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
I feel like so much of what happened in the Delta over the decades since slavery was abolished seems much closer in the Delta,… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
“Vines catch my arms, my head; we tear through until we break out into the clearing before the fence, the field, the barn, the… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
“Before all the little mean things she told me gathered and gathered and lodged like grit in a skinned knee.” — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
People give the South a bad rap. It's often stereotyped as backwards and close-minded and dogmatic, and all of those things have been true.… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
By the time I wrote my memoir, 'Men We Reaped,' I had been running from writing it for a long time. When the events… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
When I was a teenager, I was the only black girl at a small, private Episcopal school, where my tuition was paid by the… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
She was the murderous mother who cut us to the bone but left us alive, left us naked and bewildered as wrinkled newborn babies,… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
