Long, dark, and lovely she had been, in those days before her mind broke and the parts scattered and she let them go.

Fading light buttered the ridges until shadows licked them clean and they were lost to nightfall.

Never. Never ask for what ought to be offered.

The heart makes dreams seem like ideas.

He unscrewed the lid, set it on the dash, snorted from the bottle twice, banged the steering wheel, and said, 'You got to be ready to die every day - then you got a chance.'

Ree, brunette and sixteen, with milk skin and abrupt green eyes, stood bare-armed in a fluttering yellowed dress, face to the wind, her cheeks reddening as if smacked and smacked again.

I said shut up once already, with my mouth.

This is how sudden things happened that haunted forever.

The opening novel of the 'Bayou Trilogy' was the first one I finished.

I was not much used to women except for mothers. Everything I did, they did different.

Pine trees with low limbs spread over fresh snow made a stronger vault for the spirit than pews and pulpits ever could.

War, in its fairest form, implies a perpetual violation of humanity and justice.

People speak even after their death. Only do speak those who have recorded their speech in writing before they die, the rest go silent forever

I am an enthusiastic Darwinian, but I think Darwinism is too big a theory to be confined to the narrow context of the gene.

What day is it?"It's today, " squeaked Piglet.My favorite day, " said Pooh.

It is by his freedom that a man knows himself, by his sovereignty over his own life that a man measures himself.

It's almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.

Don't get into this false sense that you are an individual when you're on Facebook. No. You're Not. You're a pawn in their scheme.

You're not such a dog as you think you are.

Few faults of style, whether real or imaginary, excite the malignity of a more numerous class of readers, than the use of hard words.

April brings the primrose sweet, / Scatters daisies at our feet.