Time Quote by Shirley Ann Grau

“I wonder now what it was like living for four years, not wanting to, only waiting for your hold to weaken so you could…

— Shirley Ann Grau

“He wondered if she’d been waiting all these nights to come because she hadn’t had a nightgown. He started to ask her. But there…

— Shirley Ann Grau

“And isn’t it funny, she thought, that it takes two generations to kill off a man? … First him, and then his memory. …”

— Shirley Ann Grau

Haven't you ever noticed how highways always get beautiful near the state capital?

— Shirley Ann Grau

“Some people you can't comfort. You can only go along with their pretending and pretend yourself.”

— Shirley Ann Grau

Oak trees come out of acorns, no matter how unlikely that seems. An acorn is just a tree's way back into the ground. For…

— Shirley Ann Grau

At the end of a marriage it is difficult to recall the beginning.

— Shirley Ann Grau

In brief, I spend half my time trying to learn the secrets of other writers - to apply them to the expression of my…

— Shirley Ann Grau

Me? What am I? Nothing. The legs on which dinner comes to the table, the arms by which cocktails enter the living room, the…

— Shirley Ann Grau

“Our children grow old and elbow us into the grave.”

— Shirley Ann Grau

One of my current pet theories is that the winter is a kind of evangelist, more subtle than Billy Graham, of course, but of…

— Shirley Ann Grau

“And you remember how warm bourbon tasted, in a paper cup with water dipped out of the lake at your feet. How the nights…

— Shirley Ann Grau