Peaches Quote by Robert R. Mitchell

“Rake had been amazed by hos much he missed the South while at war. Even the crushing heat. Even the sharp pain of a…

— Thomas Mullen

“He gave himself to them completely, with no guilt, no shame, no reservation, and in that surrender he found a quiet, shining pearl he…

— Heidi Cullinan

“But every town had been promising. Every place at first had said, Here you go- You can live here. You can rest here. You…

— Elizabeth Strout

“It was Sam's first view of a battle of Men against Men and he did not like it much. He was glad he could…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“All life was weather, a waiting through the hot where events had no significance for the cool that was soft and caressing like a…

— Scott Fitzgerald

“The South was a special place, a chosen people, the best of all possible worlds.”

— Marie Jakober

“...you can't put nothing past these southern boys. They just sit around waiting for somebody to kill their brother so they can get started…

— Alden Bell

“By no means was crazy unique to the South,but it sure did love to parade it around on the front porch, give it a…

— Robert Reeves

“Perhaps the best way to sum all this up is to say that the people I knew felt, mainly, a peculiar kind of relief…

— James Baldwin

“Sam faced something he had never conceived of in all his life—the triumph of calumny.”

— Christina Stead

“Growing up in Fitzgerald, I lived in an intense microcosm, where your neighbor knows what you're going to do even before you do, where…

— Frances Mayes

“She was thinking of Mobile, where her mother—her “sainted American mother,” as she called her—had spent her childhood. That was a place of shady…

— Alexander McCall Smith