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The Elementals QUOTES

The Elementals QUOTES

1 " Savage mothers eat their children! "

― Michael McDowell , The Elementals

2 " Alcoholism is a disease,” she said. “Like athlete’s foot. Or herpes. It’s nothing to be ashamed of. Luker and I have lots of friends who are alcoholics. And speed freaks too.” “Well, "

― Michael McDowell , The Elementals

3 " To have a family is real strange,” said India thoughtfully. “All these people you wouldn’t have anything to do with except that they’re related to you. "

― Michael McDowell , The Elementals

4 " She’s got manners, but what has she got in the way of morals?” “Oh,” said Luker blithely, “she and I don’t have any morals. We have to get along with a scruple or two.” “I "

― Michael McDowell , The Elementals

5 " India had previously entertained no sympathy for the Southern way of life, with its pervasive friendliness, its offhanded viciousness, its overwhelming lassitude. "

― Michael McDowell , The Elementals

6 " Daylight had not brought a solution, but it had accorded indifference. "

― Michael McDowell , The Elementals

7 " It’s bad when the dead talk in dreams,” said Odessa. "

― Michael McDowell , The Elementals

8 " To them all, Beldame represented the fair and possible reward for distress, misfortune, and labor in this world—it was to them a heaven on earth, and resembled the other, preached-of heaven in that it was bright, remote, timeless, and empty. "

― Michael McDowell , The Elementals

9 " You know what you should have done, added Luker, you should have ripped his balls off and stapled them to the back of his throat. "

― Michael McDowell , The Elementals

10 " Daylight had not brought a solution, but it had accorded indifference. Having "

― Michael McDowell , The Elementals

11 " There’s no point in advertising a circus when everybody hates the clown. "

― Michael McDowell , The Elementals

12 " India returned to her kneading, but repeated under her breath, “I don’t believe it, I don’t believe it! "

― Michael McDowell , The Elementals

13 " He was being sought for. "

― Michael McDowell , The Elementals

14 " Barbara, shut up,” said her son Luker. “You know very well why it’s a private funeral.” “Why?” “Because we are the only people in Mobile who would have come. There’s no point in advertising a circus when everybody hates the clown. "

― Michael McDowell , The Elementals

15 " At breakfast this morning I drank a whole glass of grapefruit juice and it wasn’t till after I had put it down in the sink that I thought about putting vodka in it. And if that’s not being cured, I don’t know what is! "

― Michael McDowell , The Elementals

16 " Oh, law! This morning I look one day older than God and a year younger than water! Last night I didn’t close my eyes. At five o’clock this morning I was still awake in my bed, turning and tossing and thinking about Big D.” “Dallas?” “Dying, precious—Big D is death. "

― Michael McDowell , The Elementals

17 " it didn’t make a damn bit of difference if he won or lost, he wasn’t gone be saddled with a wife who could drink more than a barnful of Irishmen "

― Michael McDowell , The Elementals

18 " The words yesterday and tomorrow might have been excised from their vocabulary: for yesterday had entertained nothing that was worth today’s speech, and tomorrow could promise no change from today. "

― Michael McDowell , The Elementals