"The older lady smiled a friendly welcome that rivaled her preserves for sweet appeal. She could have been someone’s grandmother complete with close-cropped white hair if she wasn’t wearing a worn Grat..."
- Kathy Bryson
"Now, where had I heard drinking and brawling before? Oh right, Ashley’s father. Well, I wasn’t doing that again."
"That was one tiny trailer when both girls wanted to watch TV or use the computer or the bathroom at the same time."
"Nothing good can come from a crack of dawn meeting on a Monday morning."
- Kathy Bryson - Fighting Mad
"It was easy to imagine he’d just rolled out of bed and then it was easy to imagine him in bed and I wasn’t going there."
"Ours was not one of those nice, quaintly old-fashioned mobile homes that senior citizens putter around in. We lived in the beat-up tin can of clichéd poverty."
"Take some advice from an old farmer. You’re in business now. Take the money. You’d be amazed at how many don’t want to pay."
"I realized that I sat in an empty bar in filthy, wet clothes with a drippy nose, probably red-rimmed eyes, and the most I could say I’d accomplished was that I was now congested. Oh, and one of the ha..."
"My inner bitch could handle this peon without even breaking a sweat."
"Everything you’re telling me was just a story, and now it’s real."