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1 " Summer was a gift bestowed upon the survivors of winter’s wrath, even when the wind lay still and burning fire wood scented the air, it was always the promise of summer following, the awaited favorite season, the hope of it and the joy, the green grass smell of it, the free barefoot days of it that beckoned the winter weary forward. "
― Vera Jane Cook , Lies a River Deep
2 " Air hung heavy like wet clothes caught flapping in the rain made it hard to breathe. "
3 " Clarissa noticed his eyes, they were like indifferent tides, shielding knowledge of an impending storm "
― Vera Jane Cook , Pleasant Day
4 " I should have seen his weaknesses and only given him a section of myself but I loved him to my core, no matter who he was. There were no hidden places in my heart that would not welcome him or any sacred ground inside my being that he could not walk upon. "
5 " The ashes of our mistakes are between us. There's still smoke from the fire, isn't there? "
6 " She heard his scream, Graham's scream, and she smiled. She would bear the pain. She would heal. He would not. "
7 " I been sitting here by Millie's grave trying to figure out death, but it's a hard mystery to unravel. I don't know why God gives it to us to bear 'cause it leaves so deep a scar when we lose a loved one. We make up all these dumb clichés to try and explain what happens after death but not a one of them makes a lick of sense to me. Thinking there's a heaven somewhere don't mean shit. I have no guarantee of any heaven and having faith in something I can't see makes me feel like a fool. "
8 " Daddy says that one day all I'll think about is people I used to know. "
9 " The passing years often rob people of the truth. But then again, those passing years also allow people to recreate the truth. "
10 " Angus had been hurt deeply by what John Peter had done, that he might have lost a friend in such a horrible way. I could see that. But even aside from the stupid thing John Peter had done, Angus was hurting for me, feeling my pain, taking it with him as he rode off. He might not have understood all of what I was feeling but he had embraced it. He didn't get it after Millie died, but now he knew what loss could do to a person. Empathy just might save the world one day. "
11 " Little bastard would never get as tall as the tales he told. "
12 " I am well practiced in avoidance and indifference though the hollowness in my soul resents her absence; I wear the mask I must. "
13 " Clarissa remembered why she didn't like him, he was astucious, an ambiguous villain in a gentleman's three piece suit. "
14 " Daddy came and got me after dinner. Mama must have told him I knew that dead girl 'cause he was eyeing me all through Mama's pot roast like maybe I was going to get suicidal and hang myself from the ceiling light in my bedroom after the two helpings of dessert I took. "
15 " She didn’t want to go to that place, and she had to force herself not to, but it was standing between she and her father’s memory; to keep him close she’d have to allow the ache "
16 " The devil is a gentleman in disguise, Bessie. "
17 " He was approachable but he was too complex to know really well, too gifted at exaggeration to believe fully. "
18 " She would have preferred being beautiful to looking as if she were perpetually sucking on sour drops. "
19 " I guess, if you ever had God figured out the universe would be split in thousands of pieces and it would disappear and we who have dreamed ourselves alive would all fade away in all those splintered parts. What I mean to say is, it isn't meant for us to know anything. "
20 " The young should only know where they’re headed "
