Top 4 Quotes by Paulette Jiles

The road to hell was paved with the bones of men who did not know when to quit fighting.

The road to hell was paved with the bones of men who did not know when to quit fighting.

Fighting, Men, Quitting

Paulette Jiles (2003). “Enemy Women”

Paper Matches My aunts washed dishes while the uncles squirted each other on the lawn with garden hoses. Why are we in here, I said, and they are out there? That’s the way it is, said Aunt Hetty, the shriveled-up one. I have the rages that small animals have, being small, being animal. Written on me was a message, “At Your Service,” like a book of paper matches. One by one we were taken out and struck. We come bearing supper, our heads on fire.

Paulette Jiles

Uncles, Book, Taken

Paulette Jiles (1988). “Blackwater”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

And she understood, all by herself, without reading it in a novel or hearing it on a radio program, that falling passionately in love with someone, without reservation or holding back, was good for the heart. For its valves and its arteries and that invisible shadow of the heart clled the soul. Falling in love was good for the soul.

Paulette Jiles

Falling In Love, Reading, Heart