"Don't cry because it's over; smile because it happened." Anonymous

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"Now I am all for a few Valium every day, but I have never once lost consciousness before noon."--Sissy Hickey, Sordid Lives, the Series.

"I'm such an unholy mess of a girl."--Tracy Lord, High Society

 "...the only people in the world worth knowing are people with attitude." Nathan Bishop, The Brothers Bishop.

"Our lives are better left to chance. I could've missed the pain, but I'd have had to miss the dance."--Garth Brooks, The Dance.

 "This is where we learned to hate ourselves." Mark, Southern Baptist Sissies, standing in the empty sanctuary of the church he grew up in.

**Leslie Jordan referred to this line in his memoir that I recently read, when discussing his own upbringing. I remembered silently crying during that particular scene, because I knew exactly how the character ( Read more... )

 "I'd rather have thirty minutes of wonderful than a lifetime of nothing special."~~Shelby, Steel Magnolias

"I've never known anyone who lived in or even visited  the Quarter who wasn't slightly intoxicated--without booze." Tennessee Williams, from Dr. Kenneth Holditch's essay "Freedom's Just Another Word for Nothing Left  To Lose" in Love, Bourbon Street.

I read this essay last night and fell in love with New Orleans and Tennessee Williams all over again ( Read more... )