Don’t be so eager to judge, Suzette. You can’t tell how heavy somebody else’s load is just from looking.

Reaching too deep into something not meant for you is full of pain. Figure out what you can have and work on that.

You can’t tell how heavy somebody else’s load is just from looking. The Lord doesn’t give us more than we can carry.

You be surprised what a person got in them to do when the time come.

The two women worked easily together, but I soon sensed that, though Belle was in charge of the kitchen, Mama Mae was in charge of Belle.

Fear is a cruel master, but hope die a hard death.

Three generations of women out on the front porch, four counting little Emily, trying to put words around a past and a future that could never be explained.

One thing always sure. Life go on with you or without you, no matter how much you seen.

They's a time for sitting still and praying the wind blow over you, and they's a time to rise up and face the storm.

Sometimes good came out of hurt, compensation came out of pain. He gave with one hand, and He took with the other.