Keith Donohue Quotes

To lose one’s name is the beginning of forgetting.

Write it down, boy. If you come across a passage in your reading that you’d like to remember, write it down in your little book; then you can read it again, memorize it, and have it whenever you wish.

Love makes us do wicked things.

As I let go of the past, the past let go of me.

Once I learned to read, I could not imagine my life otherwise.

October proved a riot a riot to the senses and climaxed those giddy last weeks before Halloween.

Allure goes beyond appearances to the way they grace the world. Some women propel themselves by means of an internal gyroscope. Others glide through life as if on ice skates. Some women convey their tortured lives through their eyes; others encircle you in the music of their laughter.

Between the covers, a book can be a sin.

I am gone and am not coming back, but I remember everything.

Ben Farmer brings a legend to life in Evangeline, evoking with grace and panache the travails of the Acadians in mid-eighteenth century America from Nova Scotia to New Orleans. Farmer is a wonderful storyteller, and readers won’t soon forget this tale of love and fortitude. Simply riveting.