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 HolmanStichwörter: mulitple-birth
He loved that she eschewed cursive for print, as he did. Cursive, more than anything, betrayed a person's age.
Sheri HolmanStichwörter: writing
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 HolmanEvery four years we go through the same cycle of hope and disillusionment.
Sheri HolmanStichwörter: democracy election
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[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[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 HolmanGood and Evil are opposite points on a circle, Dr. Chiver. Greater good is just halfway back to Bad.
Sheri HolmanStichwörter: bad good-and-evil greater-good
None of her spells are planned, but come to her like snatches of poetry or a doodle on a napkin.
Sheri HolmanSecrets are always hardest at the beginning. After a while they settle in like the cavities in your teeth, and you only think about them when they hurt.
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