Piper Huguley > Quotes

“I think sometime people don’t know what a sacrifice it is to be married. They think it’s something easy when it’s hard.”
― Piper Huguley, The Representative's Revolt

“Your name?” “Mrs. Virgil Smithson.” “I see. That’s wonderful for him, but your name my dear is…”
― Piper Huguley, The Representative's Revolt

“Prep Time: 15 minutes Cook Time: 20 minutes Serves: 6 Ingredients BISCUITS 2 cups flour 1 tablespoon baking powder 1 teaspoon kosher salt 1/2 cup shortening (butter, lard or vegetable shortening) 3/4 cup milk or buttermilk SAUSAGE GRAVY 1-pound breakfast pork sausage 1/3 cup flour 3 cups milk salt and black pepper, as needed Preparation Preheat oven to 450°F. In a large bowl, combine flour, baking powder and salt; cut in shortening until mixture has a crumbly texture. Add milk and mix into a dough, adding flour as needed until dough pulls away from side of bowl. On a lightly floured surface, roll or pat dough ¾-inch thick. Using a biscuit cutter, cut out biscuits, place on a baking sheet. Bake for 15 minutes, or until lightly browned on top. To make gravy: pan fry breakfast sausage until fully cooked, breaking up large pieces. Using a slotted spoon, transfer cooked sausage to bowl. Add flour to pan dripping and whisk until golden. Slowly add milk and whisk over low heat until thickened. Add reserved sausage and stir to blend. Season to taste with salt and black pepper. Serve split biscuits topped with gravy.”
― Piper Huguley, Sweet Tea: A perfect heartwarming romance from Hallmark Publishing

“My word. It’s more than a notion being a colored woman, isn’t it?”
― Piper Huguley, A Virtuous Ruby

“Go on to the sink and clean this bowl and remember that a woman will always have a master. Always. We ain’t never get to be free. Difference between the bad times and now is that we gets to choose. We can say who we want our master to be.”
― Piper Huguley, By Her Own Design: A Novel of Ann Lowe, Fashion Designer to the Social Register

“You're washed clean too, before God, Ruby. I'm washed of my sins. So are you,”
― Piper Huguley, A Virtuous Ruby

“For all of my life, ever since I was a little girl, I thought what I wanted was to be at one of these lovely dinner dances. Well. Now that I'm here, It's been marvelous, but I know that the main thing about this is not the dinner and it's not the fashion show, it's that I know that you see me. You see what I've tried to do all of these years.”
― Piper Huguley, By Her Own Design: A Novel of Ann Lowe, Fashion Designer to the Social Register

“After all, who eats more than traveling preacher men?”
― Piper Huguley, The Representative's Revolt

“The way she had seen me and treated me, was the way we should all see and treat one another. For to be able to see someone, to see them as a human being, to see them for what they can contribute in this world, to be a light, to be a force, or an influence in someone else's life, is all that we need.”
― Piper Huguley, By Her Own Design: A Novel of Ann Lowe, Fashion Designer to the Social Register

“It took one person. One lady with a good heart to see who I was and what I could do in this world.”
― Piper Huguley, By Her Own Design: A Novel of Ann Lowe, Fashion Designer to the Social Register

“You never, ever do what I say.”
― Piper Huguley, The Representative's Revolt

“After weeping, he often fell into the sweetest dreams.”
― Piper Huguley, By Her Own Design: A Novel of Ann Lowe, Fashion Designer to the Social Register

“I see something good in you. I know that's why you are a doctor. But there's a pain there too, some hurt inside what don't have anything to do with the body. It's about the spirit. I just want to tell you, God sees. He's ready to heal you.”
― Piper Huguley, A Virtuous Ruby

“You're washed clean too, before God, Ruby. I'm washed of my sins. So are you.”
― Piper Huguley, A Virtuous Ruby

“For, to be able to see someone, to see them as a human being, to see them for what they can contribute in this world, to be a light, to be a force or an influence in someone else’s life, is all that we need.”
― Piper Huguley, By Her Own Design: A Novel of Ann Lowe, Fashion Designer to the Social Register

“You could, Doctor, sir, but I know you wanted to know.”
― Piper Huguley, A Virtuous Ruby

“My mama was beautiful. Isn’t everyone’s mama beautiful?”
― Piper Huguley, By Her Own Design: A Novel of Ann Lowe, Fashion Designer to the Social Register

“A man’s treatment of his wife always showed up in his wife’s face, telling me what kind of dress was necessary: a dress to recapture or to keep his attention. This was a recapture job.”
― Piper Huguley, By Her Own Design: A Novel of Ann Lowe, Fashion Designer to the Social Register

“It has been many years since I let a man kiss me... When our lips met, parts of me that I had forgotten existed, thawed out from neglect and rose back to life like when Jesus was resurrected.”
― Piper Huguley, By Her Own Design: A Novel of Ann Lowe, Fashion Designer to the Social Register

“Girls need . . . well, they need a father figure at that age to show them . . . how a woman should be treated. Don’t you think so?”
― Piper Huguley, By Her Own Design: A Novel of Ann Lowe, Fashion Designer to the Social Register

“I may only have one eye now, but I see you too. And let me tell you. I appreciate that. It has been the honor of my life to be here among you and I thank you so very much.”
― Piper Huguley, By Her Own Design: A Novel of Ann Lowe, Fashion Designer to the Social Register