Ron Rash Quotes
Others can make us vulnerable and the sooner such vulnerabilities are dealt with the better
A place where something so terrible had happened shouldn't continue to exist in the world
We had some good times at school. I didn't know how good those times were until I left, but I guess that's the way of it
But nothing is solid and permanent. Our lives are raised on the shakiest foundations. You don't need to read history books to know that. You only have to know the history of your own life.
It's a hard place this world can be. No wonder a baby cries coming in to it. Tears from the start
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)
You got one choice at the beginning but if you didn't choose right, things got narrow real quick.
I live in Cullowhee, North Carolina. That's where I teach, at Western Carolina University. That region is where my family has lived for a long time and that region is my landscape.
I think that's what I love about writing, is the ability to try to, in a sense, take a vacation from yourself and try to enter the sensibility of another time, another character, another place.
One of my goals is to allow readers to see my characters and the world they inhabit as vividly as possible.
Dead and still in the world was worse than dead and in the ground. Dead in the ground at least gave you the hope of heaven.
She had not remembered then what she remembers now, a memory like something buried in river silt that finally works free and rises to the surface...
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.
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