Quotes by Kaye Gibbons

In closing, I hope everything helps show that I wouldn’t be a fade-out or a person who turns to think to drink or dope when things get tough. I believe that anything is possible if you have the combination of love for what you’re doing and the will to sit down and not get up until it’s done….

Unless society came out past Flat Rock Crossroads, kept on past Booker T. High School, hung two rights, a left, turned in on Milk Farm Road and found Roland plowing a tobacco field, jerked him off the tractor, warped him and set him back up there without anybody riding by and noticing, blame cant be laid on society.

Thats all my grandfather was guilty of, fear, faith in his words, but that was a high crime in her eyes. Thats all Jack was guilty of that day, but Ive lived with him a good while and I believe I understand him. Sometimes it might take an afternoon or evening of being here in this kitchen alone, thinking, but I can usually come to see his reasons through his ways. And half the job of finding peace is finding understanding. Dont you believe it to be so?

But they get some comfort out of the made up stories. And if that helps them get along maybe I should not poke fun.

Folks do not want to see a body disappear before their very eyes. Not me at least.

Oh, its no crime to want and need somebody to love and to be loved by and to go and do what you need to do to have that, but its certainly a pity when you want it so badly youll let it be anybody.