Quotes x 3

HANDSELLING GRATITUDE

Quoting writer Elaine Neil Orr on facebook with huge thanks to handsellers everywhere and Quail Ridge Books in Raleigh and Nancy in particular for loving and selling A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage: "I was in Nancy Olson's bookstore yesterday, holding your book, and Nancy came by, took the book from my hand and said to all nearby: You need to read this!"

MOST USEFUL ELECTION YEAR QUOTE SO FAR

"Rulers come and go, and we're fools if we put our faith in them." -Fr. Mark Michael

A FAVORITE LINE

When I signed a book this morning, the owner told me that her favorite line in A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage is when Casimiria (the Countess Casimira, please!) waxes poetical, musing on how "dreadfully old" she is:  "We are grass, our lives fleeting, our golden morning lasting no longer than the yellow flower head of the dandelion that runs to seed and which some passing child plucks and blows upon, scattering all its silver threads." Thank you, Miss Daphne!

Y at top

www.ourstate.com

If you are an X, Y, or Z, there's nothing quite like being at the top of a list! Thank you, Nancy Olson, Quail Ridge Books and Music (Raleigh), and North Carolina's Our State Arts and Culture for supporting A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage.