Haven't you ever noticed how highways always get beautiful near the state capital?

- Shirley Ann Grau

At the end of a marriage it is difficult to recall the beginning.

- Shirley Ann Grau

Oak trees come out of acorns, no matter how unlikely that seems. An acorn is just a tree's way back into the ground. For another try. Another trip th…

- Shirley Ann Grau

In brief, I spend half my time trying to learn the secrets of other writers - to apply them to the expression of my own thoughts.

- Shirley Ann Grau

Me? What am I? Nothing. The legs on which dinner comes to the table, the arms by which cocktails enter the living room, the hands that drive cars. I …

- Shirley Ann Grau

One of my current pet theories is that the winter is a kind of evangelist, more subtle than Billy Graham, of course, but of the same stuff.

- Shirley Ann Grau