When watering your plants, try to talk to them - say something like, Hold it right there and then shoot them with water gun.
Southerners ask intimate questions in the way monkeys groom each other for lice, not to pry but to make you feel cared for.
A need to tell and hear stories is essential to the species Homo sapiens-second in necessity apparently after nourishment and before love and shelter. Millions survive without love or home, almost none in silence; the opposite of silence leads quickly to narrative, and the sound of story is the dominant sound of our lives, from the small accounts of our day's events to the vast incommunicable constructs of psychopaths.
Strength just comes in one brand - you. Stand up at sunrise and meet what they send you and keep your hair combed
Stand up at sunrise and meet what they send you.
The only thing more destructive than a tornado is a family.
Many Americans would die naked in the middle of the road before they'd tell you what's hurt them most. But a born Southerner will show you the cell in their heart that burns the hardest. They'll hold it out to you in their bare right hand.
"You're a sex icon. " Why? Because I played a vampire in a movie? It's all very unearned. If I had the best freaking abs in the world or if I looked like Brad Pitt does in Fight Club, then cool, but I'm not starving myself.
No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing.
One bad review doesn't ruin my day because I realize what a badge of honor it is to get a bit of criticism at all.
Your readers should be so compelled to read your copy that they cannot stop reading until they read all of it as if sliding down a slippery slide.