Quotes From "Bird Of Paradise" By Vicki Covington

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Wasting talent is a sin. I’m not big on sin, but I know a sin when I see one staring me in the face. I’m not big on sin, but I know a sin when I see one staring me in the face. It’s just not courteous to not use or wear something that somebody’s given you as a well-meaning gift. It goes against Southern ways, not that God is Southern by any stretch of the imagination, but I do think He expects us to be an example for the rest of the country, as far as manners go. Vicki Covington
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All the men I know add that “hands that prepared it” line. They must know it’s right complimentary, an incentive to keep the women cooking. Vicki Covington
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The choice was whether to be sad and foolish or sad and reasonable. Vicki Covington
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Old age breeds the miracle of recall. You have no short-term memory atall; you can’t remember what you did minutes ago, but you can recall with exquisite clarity what you did on your fifth birthday and how it all felt. Vicki Covington
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Neva ought to smile more. It breaks her anxiety into tiny pieces of joy you want to gather up and hand back to her in your palms, as if to say, “See what you can make when you loose the reins. Vicki Covington
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I’m serious, now let me know every time you see her cry. The thought brings me great joy. Hope. Vicki Covington
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It never was about the musician or the instrument - it was about the laser notes in a hall of mirrors, the music itself. It was going to change the world for the better and it has. Maybe not as fast or as much as we wanted, but it has and it still will. Whether your name is Mozart, or Django Reinhardt, or Robert Johnson, or Jimi Hendrix, or whoever is next; who you are doesn't matter so long as you can open that conduit and let the music come through. It is the burning edge, whatever it sounds like and whoever is playing it. It is the noisy, messy, silly, invincible voice of life that comes through the LP on the turn-table, the transistor radio, or the Bose in your new Lexus that makes you want to get up out of whatever you are stuck in and dance. It is Dionysus and the Maenads all over again. No one can control it and I pity whoever tries. I am old now and only a house cat sunning herself in the window - but I was a tigress once, and I remember. I still remember. . G.J. Paterson
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I was that kind of tired you feel when you’ve spent a day in a hospital while a loved one undergoes surgery and comes through all right, the loved one, of course, being myself, and Christmas being the surgical procedure. Vicki Covington
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I allowed myself a microscopic view into his ice-colored eyes. It was like viewing one of those photographs of the Arctic region — very foreign, exotic, clearly a place you’ve never dreamed of going. Vicki Covington
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If there’s one thing I learned in Alanon, it’s that you got to face the music because it just grows louder when you ignore it. Vicki Covington
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I’ve never known a tranquil atheist. Don’t they always look like they just sat on a tack? Vicki Covington