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 HolmanTag: mulitple-birth
He loved that she eschewed cursive for print, as he did. Cursive, more than anything, betrayed a person's age.
Sheri HolmanTag: 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 HolmanIt'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 HolmanTag: 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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