Quotes of Donna Everhart

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“Often when we read, especially when we are younger, we are looking for a mirror, echoes of our voices, people who might look and sound like us.... Write for the twelve-year-old girl, who is looking at a mirror, at a window.~Edwidge Danticat” ― Donna Everhart, The Education of Dixie Dupree
“But if even reading could get me in trouble if I wasn't careful.” ― Donna Everhart, The Education of Dixie Dupree
“Bold and brash, she was different.” ― Donna Everhart, The Education of Dixie Dupree
“Happiness is such a fickle little thing. It comes for one reason and goes just as quick for another.” ― Donna Everhart, The Forgiving Kind
“Might” ― Donna Everhart, The Saints of Swallow Hill
“My old man once told me, lie down with dogs, get up with fleas.” ― Donna Everhart, The Saints of Swallow Hill
“I do believe you are capable of seeing sunshine, even on the rainiest of days.” ― Donna Everhart, The Road to Bittersweet
“word,” ― Donna Everhart, The Forgiving Kind
“I tasted a bitterness in my mouth. That’s what fear tastes like. It’s bitter, and nasty, and makes you feel like you’re going to throw up.” ― Donna Everhart, The Road to Bittersweet
“After a while, I sat up. I felt spent as a nickel in a dime store.” ― Donna Everhart, The Road to Bittersweet
“spot” ― Donna Everhart, The Forgiving Kind
“I felt spent as a nickel in a dime store.” ― Donna Everhart, The Road to Bittersweet
“strange new level of monotony born of repeated steps with little gain and the lack of energy to affect any change slowly overtook us.” ― Donna Everhart, The Road to Bittersweet
“Don't ever be afraid of writing the truth.” ― Donna Everhart, The Education of Dixie Dupree
“The smell of fresh-cut wood was heaven,” ― Donna Everhart, The Road to Bittersweet
“All I’ll say to you is you got to have a little hope, and you got to think about yourself sometimes too.” ― Donna Everhart, The Road to Bittersweet
“Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.” ― Donna Everhart, The Forgiving Kind
“Windows give you a view, otherwise, you can’t see nothing, no matter how hard you try.” ― Donna Everhart, The Road to Bittersweet
“There won’t ever any praise for what was expected, only when you done something startling.” ― Donna Everhart, The Road to Bittersweet
Donna Everhart
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Donna Everhart

Donna Everhart is the USA Today bestselling author of Southern fiction with authenticity and grit, including the Southeastern Library Association Award-winning The Road to Bittersweet and The Moonshiner’s Daughter. Her fifth novel, The Saints of Swallow Hill,…

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