Dolores Hitchens Quotes & Sayings

If you're going to generalize about women, you'll find yourself up to here in exceptions. — Dolores Hitchens

Down through the years certain fads of slang had come and gone, and their vestiges could be found in Janie's and Mabel's conversation, like mastodon bones in a swamp. — Dolores Hitchens

Who was it had said when you fall in love all the popular songs suddenly seemed to mean something. — Dolores Hitchens

She stopped, picked up the paper, stood there to read the headlines. But nothing seemed changed, or at least the paper made the current crises sound like all the old ones; the ferment of politics, the clash of minor foreign wars, the dismay over local crime seemed of a pattern she'd always known. — Dolores Hitchens

I gave up being a conventional person a long time ago. Things have been so much more exciting since I did. — Dolores Hitchens

There were the Newport hills, far up the bay, marked now by a rim of lights. There was the water, a blue shimmer under the sun, a black mirror after dark, somehow alive, a living thing that tied it all together, the houses hugging the rim and the people in them, drawn there to be beside the bay. The water had been there in the beginning, the beautiful bay all alone; and now the houses had crowded about it, hemming it in a row of stucco and brick and white clapboard. Someday the bay would be alone again. When The Thing went off. When all of the houses would be blown away. There would be floating rubble, a border of broken trash for a little while. — Dolores Hitchens

Jealousy had a taste, all right. A bitter and tongue-stinging flavor, like a peach pit. — Dolores Hitchens