Dolores Claiborne

spent thinkin about what an awful word that is. Estranged. Just the sound of it makes me shiver.

ometimes a woman has to be a bitch to survive; but bein a bitch is hard work

There’s no bitch on earth like a mother frightened for her kids.

The trouble with bein innocent is you’re more or less stuck with the truth.

This is how. This is how you pay off bein a bitch. And it ain’t no use sayin if you hadn’t been a bitch you wouldn’t’ve had to pay, because sometimes the world makes you be a bitch. When it’s all doom n dark outside and only you inside to first make a light n then tend it, you have to be a bitch. But oh, the price. The terrible price.

Lookin into her eyes was like lookin at the windows of a house where the people have left without rememberin to pull down the shades.

A person can always find somethin to be grateful for, no matter how dark things get

And if you think I didn’t need a little soothin, you try wakin up all alone in a big old museum like that in the middle of the night, with the wind screamin outside and an old crazy woman screamin inside.