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The Mammoth Cheese QUOTES

The Mammoth Cheese QUOTES

1 " Every four years we go through the same cycle of hope and disillusionment. "

― Sheri Holman , The Mammoth Cheese

2 " It's the greatest of Southern honors . . . to have one's name incorporated into a family tree. It's an honor not lightly given. "

― Sheri Holman , The Mammoth Cheese

3 " If she'd spaced her children out and had eleven babies in eleven years, she would have been no better than her own mother and sisters: irresponsible, a welfare cheat, another bit of Sawdust Lane white trash. But as luck would have it, she'd had them all at once, and now she was, overnight, middle-class. And respectable. "

― Sheri Holman , The Mammoth Cheese

4 " [N]ames were what you wore forever, and she felt that she'd sent her daughters out in tacky rabbit fur coats when they should have been wrapped in mink. "

― Sheri Holman , The Mammoth Cheese

5 " [H]e went ahead and named them without her, pulling from the spiral notebook of names they'd been collecting, putting together first and middle names with no rhyme or reason . . . names that obviously didn't flow. "

― Sheri Holman , The Mammoth Cheese

6 " He loved that she eschewed cursive for print, as he did. Cursive, more than anything, betrayed a person's age. "

― Sheri Holman , The Mammoth Cheese

7 " Polly had always marveled . . . that her country would name such a processed and unnatural product [American cheese] after itself, yet hungry Rose . . . gleefully ate every individually wrapped, plastic little one of them. "

― Sheri Holman , The Mammoth Cheese