Alexandra Ripley
Alexandra Ripley
Alexandra Ripley, née Braidwas an American writer best known as the author of Scarlett, written as a sequel to Gone with the Wind. Her first novel was Who's the Lady in the President's Bed?. Charleston, her first historical novel, was a bestseller, as were her next books On Leaving Charleston, The Time Returns, and New Orleans Legacy...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth8 January 1934
CountryUnited States of America
air years land
It's the centuries, Scarlett darling. All the life lived there, all the joy and all the sorrow, all the feasts and battles, they're in the air around and the land beneath you. It's time, years beyond our counting weighing without weight on the earth. You cannot see it or smell it or hear it or touch it, but you feel it brushing your skin and speaking without sound. Time. And mystery.
past maybe-tomorrow yesterday
But you know who you are when you're on your own out there in all that emptiness. There's no past, no holding on to the scraps that are all you've got left. Everything is that minute, or maybe tomorrow, not yesterday.
book cereal deodorant
Books have become products, like cereal or perfume or deodorant.
thinking next needs
Should-haves solve nothing. It's the next thing to happen that needs thinking about.