Ya-Yas in Bloom

by Rebecca Wells

Although I really like parts of all the books Rebecca Wells writes, there are definite parts that I out rightly hate. All involving abuse basically. Still her books are all worth reading, there's just somethings I can't comprehend doing or condone. I wonder a lot about the author and what kind of experiences she's had to think of such things. I still basically envy the Ya-Yas for their sisterhood though...

Quotes I liked:

"Photos in this house are not what you would call organized. You have to be an archaeologist to even form a search team."

"There are a million stories.....and the children would make their mothers tell them over and over, and if the teller forgot one single part, the children would make the raconteur go back and include it. The teller could add in new elements, but she could never leave out the essentials. That's the way it is with creation stories. You can embroider them, but you must not leave out the fundamental building blocks."

"I wonder if Mama ever knew how much that acknowledgement meant to me. I wonder if she knows how it makes up for so many things. That moment stays inside of all the other moments. It's not that it makes the other scary moments go away. But when I am up against the wall, when I am shaking with fear, the memory of that moment stops me from hiding in the bathroom and throwing up."

"Don't call her a woman," Vivi says. "Howard is a nun."
"Bride of Christ," Turner says.
"That's right," Vivi agrees.
"Did she wear a garter when she married Christ?" Lulu asks.
Vivi stares at Lulu, then she stares at Caro. "Caro, were there some kind of classes we were supposed to take before we said we'd raise kids?"
"Yeah," Caro replies. "We forgot to go."
"Oh, that's right." Vivi laughs. "We took the cha-cha classes instead, remember?"
"Let's cha-cha!" the twins demanded.
"Absolument!" Cary says and goes over to the stereo.

"This is a party. Let's get back to it." Baylor said.
"Damn well better," Shep said. "I hate to think of what those Ya-Yas could have cooked up while we were in here."
"They move fast, don't they?" George said.
"Hell, George, we've never been able to keep up with them and never will. Knew it when we married them, didn't we?"
George smiled. "I was dumber than you, Shep. I actually thought I would be the boss."
Shep laughed, "Boss a Ya-Ya? Man, you were one blind SOB!"
"In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king," George quoted.