Suzanne Woods Fisher

“Beauty is more than perfect features, Birdy. There's something about you that draws everyone to you, the way flowers turn toward the sun. You walk into a room and the place comes alive. You are beautiful, Birdy. All the more so because you don't even realize it.”

“What was home, really? Just a place to lay your head.No. It was so much more than that. It was a place where a person belonged. Where a fellow would be missed. It was a part of a man. Something that couldn't be sold or taken for granted.”

“Men are all alike. Grown-up children.”

“He wanted to leave the past a few hundred miles down the road, shake it off like dust. But that ws the problem with the past. It kept finding him.”

“What are summer teeth? Summer in their mouth, Some are elsewhere.”

“Go far from home and yo will have a long way back.”

“Just because the boat rocks doesn't mean it's time to jump overboard.”

“When did wishing someone a Merry Christmas become politically incorrect?”

“Time is like the Mississippi River. It only flows in one direction. You can never go back.”