Susanna Kearsley Quotes

Nashville is a lot like my hometown. You learn so quickly once someone hears something about you or sees something, everybody talks about it at dinner. They know your business, so people tend to be more private and not to throw themselves into everyone's faces.

I grew up in east Tennessee, and everybody knew everybody's business.

I grew up on a farm in a small town where you do or say one thing and everybody knows about it. You see it happen, there's always the town gossip - 'Oh did you hear about so and so, or did you hear what went on in this household?' So I learned at a very young age just to keep my mouth shut.

What I don't miss is living in a small town where everybody knows you, your family, and what you ate for breakfast.

Truth be told, that's really one of the small reasons that I wanted to get out; because everybody knows your business in Charlotte.

Unlike Chicago or New York, small-town Minnesota did not allow a man's failings to disappear beneath a veil of numbers. People talked. Secrets did not stay secret.

That's the trouble with the suburbs: it's not a city, so you're not anonymous, and it's not a small town, so that people really care about you, but everybody kind of knows each other's business, so you're very judged.

I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.

I have never indulged our society's misguided notion that my personal life is relevant to my work, so any reporting surrounding that is necessarily hearsay, speculation or fantasy.

Britain can sometimes feel like a very small village, and you're this, I dunno, scarlet woman they're all gossiping about.

If you want to know how far gossip travels, do this - take a feather pillow up on a roof, slice it open, and let the feathers fly away on the wind. Then go and find every single feather and re-stuff the pillow.

One thing about living in a small town, I knew everybody and everybody knew me.

If people are sitting in the barbershop talking about my butt, it's conversational. That's what people are gonna do.

If you discuss other people, words get twisted; things get turned around.

A lot of people believe what other people say.

Souderton was a good town to grow up in. Everybody knew each other.

The word of the mouth is a very powerful thing and you can say something about someone that is not necessarily true, but people will believe it and it will become a constant reminder and every time that your name is bought up, that will come up.

I've never been involved in something where people cared about my personal life and the gossip of it!

So I have been careful about where I go and who I hang out with because if you tell someone the wrong thing, then it's everywhere.

There ain't no secrets in this town.

It is not a secret if it is known by three people.

I have no neighbors. I live in a small town where everybody is very protective of me.

I don't like to be talked about, especially by somebody that doesn't know me.

What people don't understand is that when I hear what somebody has said about me, I wonder, 'Don't you know what they are saying about you, too?' It's quite amusing.

Your barber always knows everything that goes on in the town, doesn't he?