It’s a grim reality, but the river towns are dying in Mississippi, by a slow exsanguination of people and talent that functions like a wasting disease.
I’m not sure Shad’s worried about that. You said it yourself, his concern is the special election. That means making good on his promise to make the system equal, i.e., to nail a rich white man. That’...
Let me tell you a secret, Caitlin. We’re still in the cave. It’s just bigger, and we wear nicer clothes. We make alliances and try to be civil, we save the weak instead of leaving them out in the cold...
Have resolved a simple thing: I will do those things which make me happy today, and which I can also live with ten years from now.
A military base, to check out the story.
Mississippi blood is different. It’s got some river in it. Delta soil, turpentine, asbestos, cotton poison. But there’s strength in it, too. Strength that’s been beat but not broke.
Psychiatric evaluation. Roberts glanced at Jack Moran. If you will agree to
Fuchsia-blooming crape myrtle trees, which are tended
Old Shelby said something interesting about facts: ‘People make a grievous error thinking that a list of facts is the truth. Facts are just the bare bones out of which truth is made.
Only in the shadow of death do we sense the true velocity of time—while adrenaline blasts through our systems, eternity becomes tangible and all else blurs into background.
Our actions have consequences that last long after us, entwining the present with the future in ways we cannot begin to understand. I have resolved a simple thing: I will do those things which make me...
Fervent, will not cure the afflicted. Nor
There it was, the choice I’d confronted so often in life: the path of least resistance, or the walk over hot coals.
There’s no universal tally of good and evil, balancing right and wrong. The Christians with their God-has-a-plan fantasy, the Hindus with their karmic balance . . . it’s all wishful thinking. Primitiv...
Thought like that showed me the needless ambiguity of words like space-time. The average person heard a word like that and figured he'd never understand it. But it was so simple. Every place you ever...
When everything is at risk, good judgment, not haste, makes the difference between life and death. Panic is the enemy.
Where are you going? Quentin asks. To do my job. You need to start thinking about whether you’ve got what it takes to do yours. Hey, don’t— I slam the door and hurry down the hall. The Brightside Mano...
You know, the truth isn’t hard to find, if you’re willing to get your hands dirty. Truth waits just under the surface for any man brave enough to scrape a little dirt away. But most people are too afr...
All partnerships fail in the end, just like marriages. The only life after death any human being will ever know is staying in a marriage or a partnership after it’s over. And that’s not life—it’s livi...
Masked man beats her with the bottle, which doesn’t break, thank God. But then he rips off her panties and rapes her with it. Both holes. Serious trauma, but mostly in the back.
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