Sharyn McCrumb famous quotes

04-17-2025

Cities are judged by their richest inhabitants and rural areas are judged
-- Sharyn McCrumb

#Cities #Judging #Rural Areas
Maybe staying single meant that you never had to grow up.
-- Sharyn McCrumb

#Growing Up #Singles #Staying Single
Trying to act normal is the most unnatural behavior of all.
-- Sharyn McCrumb

#Trying #Normal #Behavior
Nobody has time to write a book. Some people just do it anyhow.
-- Sharyn McCrumb

#Book #Writing #People
It couldn't be the beer. Donnie McRory was certain of that. If you sent American beer out to be analyzed, the lab would probably phone up and say, 'Your horse has diabetes.
-- Sharyn McCrumb

#Horse #Beer #Phones
All babies are incoherent, but they grow up. That is the principle difference between an infant and a poet.
-- Sharyn McCrumb

#Baby #Growing Up #Differences
Life seems to be a choice between two wrong answers.
-- Sharyn McCrumb

#Life #Two #Choices
You take a handful of rocks and put them in a jar. Then once a week, you take one tiny pebble out of the jar and throw it away. When the jar is empty, why, you'll just about be over your grief. ... Time alone will do if you're short on rocks.
-- Sharyn McCrumb

#Grief #Rocks #Over You
Elvis is bound to be dead. Look at all the vultures in his vicinity.
-- Sharyn McCrumb

#Looks #Vulture #Vicinity
Domestic rabbits don't have the sense that God promised animal crackers.
-- Sharyn McCrumb

#Animal #Rabbits #Crackers
anger is more productive than fear.
-- Sharyn McCrumb

#Anger #Productive
Some people are born to fit the times.
-- Sharyn McCrumb

#People #Fit #Born
If it had taught them nothing else, twenty years of living past high school had taught them self-preservation. ... No one was going to risk putting his ego on the line; they would come prepared with dates, flattering clothes, and a well-rehearsed, carefully edited biography. They would all be kind to each other. High school was enough torture for one lifetime.
-- Sharyn McCrumb

#School #Past #Self
Half magic is no magic at all.
-- Sharyn McCrumb

#Magic #Half
Romulan or Vulcan?' the ushers asked each guest. Marion, who had been poised to say 'friends of the bride' had responded to the question with an open-mouthed stare, and Jay Omega answered, 'Klingon!" which got them seats in the back row of the Romulan side.
-- Sharyn McCrumb

#Guests #Sides #Staring
Boondocks' is simply the Tagalog word for mountains.
-- Sharyn McCrumb

#Mountain #Boondocks
High school and equality are forever incompatible.
-- Sharyn McCrumb

#School #High School #Forever
Machines seem to sense that I am afraid of them. It makes them hostile.
-- Sharyn McCrumb

#Machines #Hostile #Seems
I wonder which is worse-the death, not knowing what comes after, or the wedding, when you think you know, but you're wrong.
-- Sharyn McCrumb

#Thinking #Knowing #Wonder
SHADOW KNIGHT'S MATE is a compelling story, extremely well-written and alarmingly plausible. Jay Brandon does for politics what Dan Brown did for religion.
-- Sharyn McCrumb

#Knights #Shadow #Doe

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