The misbegotten town of Whistlebrass is hidden away in a forgotten corner of northern Vermont like a guilty secret or a bloody knife buried under the floorboards.

Ty swung around. He was obviously fed up with Ben's negative attitude.

You want to see an angry person? Let me hear a cell phone go off.

Libraries are the future of reading.

There is no long-range effective teaching of the Bible that is not accompanied by long hours of ongoing study of the Bible.

Turning fifty ... is like flying: hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror.

Her imagination painted Georgie twenty years later, sitting in leg irons before some Broken psychiatrist. "Well, you see, it all started with bubbles.

I said to my husband, 'Why don't you call out my name when we're making love?' He said, 'I don't want to wake you up.'

Chicago is a pretty good town.

Men fell in love with Gilda, but they wake up with me.

Poverty and the rule of race that is called apartheid drive the Transkeian migrant from security on the land to work in the cities, and then back again.