Freedom Quote by Lalita Tademy

“They held the funeral on the second day, with the town coming to look at Miss Emily beneath a mass of bought flowers with…

— William Faulkner

“and the very old men--some in their brushed Confederate uniforms--on the porch and the lawn, talking of Miss Emily as if she had been…

— William Faulkner

“What am I waiting for, Emily asked herself. For each Saturday in Young in Heart to end? For Mrs. Conwey to die? For news…

— Charles Merrill

“If I could go back and erase the few women I'd been with, just so Emily would be my one and only, I would.…

— Kelley R. Martin

“Sometimes they'd be there for over an hour, the woman pointing out the catalpa trees, the sparrows, the streetlights,the porch, the little boy repeating…

— Alice Hoffman

“Emily wasn’t supposed to be someone I thought about months later. She was supposed to be a fun distraction, like all the other nameless…

— Monica Alexander

“Guy struck a jangling chord on the keyboards and then another. 'You know,' he announced, sitting back and crossing his arms. 'We need some…

— Francine Pascal

“When I turned and looked at Emily she looked like a composite of all the women who would have nothing to do with me.”

— Carl-John X. Veraja

“But like all beautiful faces Emily's made you believe that its possessor was a better person than she was. It allowed her to pass…

— Michael Chabon

“Before they knew it, time would speed up and the future would appear on a street corner or in a park, and there they’d…

— Alice Hoffman

“Early on the morning of November 9, when it came time to decide on what I’d say in my concession speech, I remembered those…

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

“Emily was so excited she forgot. She was so happy she made a mistake and said, “Thank you so much, Mommy!”

— Debra Anastasia