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She Flew the Coop: A Novel Concerning Life, Death, Sex and Recipes in Limoges, Louisiana QUOTES

She Flew the Coop: A Novel Concerning Life, Death, Sex and Recipes in Limoges, Louisiana QUOTES

1 " Now that Olive was grown, I didn't know what to do with myself. You could build your life around one single thing, like a view or a child, but that was risky. You had so much to lose. "

― Michael Lee West , She Flew the Coop: A Novel Concerning Life, Death, Sex and Recipes in Limoges, Louisiana

2 " It's hard to explain your passions, but sometimes it is harder to live them. "

― Michael Lee West , She Flew the Coop: A Novel Concerning Life, Death, Sex and Recipes in Limoges, Louisiana

3 " The first time I saw my father-in-law's cotton, I though of the Original Sin, gardening being the root of the South's downfall. "

― Michael Lee West , She Flew the Coop: A Novel Concerning Life, Death, Sex and Recipes in Limoges, Louisiana

4 " Gardens come and go, but I find myself getting attached to certain perennials. My tulips are bridesmaids, with fat faces and good posture. Hollyhocks are long necked sisters. Daffodils are young girls running out of a white church, sun shining on their heads. Peonies are pink-haired ladies, so full and stooped you have to tie them up with string. And roses are nothing but (I hate to say it) bitches--pretty show-offs who'll draw blood if you don't handle them just right.
-Vangie Galliard Nepper, From her
"Garden Diary," March 1952 "

― Michael Lee West , She Flew the Coop: A Novel Concerning Life, Death, Sex and Recipes in Limoges, Louisiana

5 " As my daddy said, soil is the basis of everything. "

― Michael Lee West , She Flew the Coop: A Novel Concerning Life, Death, Sex and Recipes in Limoges, Louisiana

6 " She, if anyone, was on a hell-bound train. I mean, if you're masquerading as a do-gooder, why not go all the way? "

― Michael Lee West , She Flew the Coop: A Novel Concerning Life, Death, Sex and Recipes in Limoges, Louisiana