Cynthia Bond Quotes & Sayings

Ain't nobody ever gone answer you cries. You can fill a well with tears, and all you gonna get is drowned. You sit there long enough and the crazy man find you. You weep too long, your heart ache so, the flesh slip off your bones and your soul got to find a new home. You wait on answers 'til the scaredy-cat curl up in your belly and use your liver for a pin cushion. And that's just how you die.O — Cynthia Bond

Lately, he'd felt like his bones were God's kindling. That God must be awfully cold to set so many fires. — Cynthia Bond

Remember, baby, don't never let a man mine you for your riches. Don't let him take a pickax to that treasure in your soul. Remember, they can't get it until you give it to them. They might lie and try to trick you out of it, baby, and they'll try. They might lay a hand on you, or worse, they might break your spirit, but the only way they can get it is to convince you it's not yours to start with. To convince you there's nothing there but a lump of coal. — Cynthia Bond

The food, though seasoned a little heavily with judgement, went down just fine. — Cynthia Bond

Ruby put her arms around her, but because she could not hold air, the child walked inside of her body, curled there and settled into her womb. — Cynthia Bond

Ephram took her hand, "But I'll tell you what. I'm most interested in the woman you have yet to be."O — Cynthia Bond

Ruby knew then that a lie could only control a person if they believed it. — Cynthia Bond

maybe devilment was catching. Maybe crazy was a cold you caught. — Cynthia Bond

Don't let sorrow steal 'way truth. — Cynthia Bond

Your daddy and me named you Otha. It means 'wealth'. You were your daddy's treasure from the time you were born until he died. He used to say there were rubies buried deep inside of you. Remember, baby, don't never let a man mine you for your riches. Don't let him take a pickax to that treasure in your soul. Remember, they can't get it until you give it to them. — Cynthia Bond

He wanted to tell her that he had seen a part of the night sky resting in her eyes and that he knew it because it lived in him as well. He wanted to tell her about the knot corded about his heart and how he needed her help to loose the binding. — Cynthia Bond

John Imig, Damon O'Neil and Jason Parker of Swork Coffee, for the life-sustaining elixir, and for allowing me to rest, type and weep for hours into months into years. — Cynthia Bond

If you brave enough to live it, the least I can do is listen. — Cynthia Bond

She made it in that pocket of time before dawn, when the aging night gathered its dark skirts and paused in the stillness. — Cynthia Bond

Ephram watched as Miss P went to give the girl a hug. Ruby bristled and inched back, shaming the older woman into converting her gesture into straightening Tabasco bottles on a nearby shelf. — Cynthia Bond

Hope was a dangerous thing, something best squashed before it became contagious. — Cynthia Bond

Those yellow eyes had seen the thing Ruby hid, even from herself. And when two people see a thing, for better or worse, it becomes real. — Cynthia Bond

The night leaned in as somehow Ruby found a way to accept that kiss and, in so doing, dipped her big toe into life. — Cynthia Bond

When she'd stepped from the red bus, the porch had crowded her with their eyes. Hair pressed and gleaming like polished black walnut. Lipstick red and thick, her cornflower blue sundress darted and stitched tight to her waist. Ephram had watched her light a cigarette and glare down at the crowd on the market porch in such a way that made folks feel embarrassed for breathing. Chauncy Rankin had said later, "Not only do her shit not stink, way she act, she ready to sell it by the ounce. — Cynthia Bond

Monday morning broke through, rubbing Sunday out of its eyes. — Cynthia Bond

You know boy, I coulda been your daddy, but the fella in line behind me had correct change. — Cynthia Bond

Ephram broke through. "You kiss me, woman! Don't let sorrow steal 'way truth. Don't blaspheme who we is. — Cynthia Bond