Quotes by Barbara Davis

“There are nine churches donating food, four churches donating water, two pizza places in town giving us pizza and a barbecue place doing meat.”

“We all work together. Like a big family.”

“I always say shopping anywhere else is shopping, and that shopping at Wegmans is an experience, ... Whenever I go anywhere else, I always say, This isnt Wegmans.”

“Youre not standing in a mob scene. You actually end up watching the parade.”

“Everybody brought it tonight. Everybody from the starters to the sixth man, we all wanted it.”

“Were going to score, so defense is where its all at.”

“Over the next ten years, the number of Americans between the ages of 75 and 84 will increase by 28%, and those over 84 by 42%. Already, applicants hoping to move into our skilled nursing home are too often asked to wait, or are referred someplace else, because there are not enough beds available to meet the demand.”

The tide, you see, is a fickle thing: stealing in, sliding away, always, always turning. She comes when youre not looking, a silent, liquid thief, only to rush away again, retreating from the shore like a coward. She gives sometimes too, though in fleeting, unexpected moments, yielding up her treasures and her dead--but never, ever her secrets.

And so I sit on the dunes in my carefully mismatched clothes, hour after hour, day after day, frozen in my looking back. Do not look behind you...lest you be swept away. That is what scripture say. Only there is nowhere for me to look but back. No future. No redemption. Like Lots wife, I am turned to salt, my tired eyes trained on the blue-gray horizon, where sea meets sky, where my yesterdays met my tomorrows, a ragtag eccentric, watching and waiting for something that never comes.