Then her mind had wandered into a place she could not follow, taking with it all the people she knew, their names and connections, whether they still lived or whether they’d died. But her body lingere...
A great business investment, religion. I’ll take it over government bonds anytime.
We had some good times at school. I didn't know how good those times was till I left, but I guess that's the way of it
A copperhead lay coiled. Part of me not sight knew it was there. The atavistic like flint rock sparked. Amazon tribes see Venus in daylight. My grandfather needed no watch to tell time. What more migh...
It’s ever been the way of the man of science or philosophy. Most folks stay in the dark and then complain they can’t see nothing.
It amazed Rachel how much you could forget, and everything you forgot made that person less alive inside you until you could finally endure it. After more time passed you could let yourself remember,...
It’s ever been the way of the man of science or philosophy. Most folks stay in the dark and then complain they can’t see nothing. – Snipes (185)
Rachel kneeled beside Jacob. She took the child's hand and pressed it to the dirt. Her father had told Rachel that Harmons had been on this land since before the Revolutionary War. Don't ever forget w...
Some claim heaven has streets of gold and all such things, but I hold a different notion. When we’re there, we’ll say to the angels, why, a lot of heaven’s glory was in the place we come from. And you...
You men notice so little, Pemberton. Physical strength is your gender's sole advantage.
I don’t even have a choice. Rachel thought how that was pretty much true of everything now, that you got one choice at the beginning but if you didn’t choose right, and she hadn’t, things got narrow r...
He’d watched the old man live his life by the signs. Whether a moon waxed or waned decided when the crops were planted and harvested, the hogs slaughtered and the timber cut, even when a hole was best...
He carries what he feels for people deep inside. Even as a kid he was that way, Aunt Margaret said. Your momma knows that. But I had wondered then as I did now what good love was that couldn’t be expr...
You got one choice at the beginning but if you didn't choose right, things got narrow real quick.
Nietzsche once said that for which we find words is something already dead in our hearts. I didn’t believe that, but to willfully defy the quote was to tempt fate—and if to find it true, to know nothi...
Not for the first time, it occurred to me that sorrow could be purified into song the same way a piece of coal is purified into a diamond.
Rachel felt the grief grow so wide and deep it felt like a dark fathomless pool she'd never emerge from. Because there was nothing left to do now, nothing except endure it.
A Servant of HistoryHer eyes were of the lightest blue as if time had rinsed away most of the colour, but there was a liveliness inside them.
One guy has his head on a table, eyes closed, vomit drooling from his mouth. Another pulls out his false teeth and clamps them on the ear of a gal at the next table. An immense woman in a purple jumps...
Others can make us vulnerable and the sooner such vulnerabilities are dealt with the better
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