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The Cutting Season QUOTES

The Cutting Season QUOTES

1 " The decor was attractive and strong, but blander than she would have thought his wealth and position afforded him. Caren couldn't see the point of having that much money if all of it led to beige. "

― Attica Locke , The Cutting Season

2 " Mothering, she learned the hard way, was about loss as well as love. "

― Attica Locke , The Cutting Season

3 " The law, she knew, is a narrow little box, and it takes only a single misstep to find yourself on the outside of it. "

― Attica Locke , The Cutting Season

4 " Belle Vie was a cipher, really, a place in whose beauty one might find pleasure or pain, leisure or labor. People saw, in its iced columns, in the magnolias and aged oaks, what they wanted to see, what their own history told them to. "

― Attica Locke , The Cutting Season

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― Attica Locke , The Cutting Season

6 " (worthy of state funding), and not a period or comma had changed in the twenty-five years hence. It was as soapy as Gone With the Wind, full of belles and balls and star-crossed lovers, noble Confederates and happy darkies and more dirty Yankees than you could count. "

― Attica Locke , The Cutting Season

7 " She felt a soft wind at her back, cold and wet, like a spook’s breath. "

― Attica Locke , The Cutting Season

8 " We navigate by stories, but sometimes we only escape by abandoning them. —REBECCA SOLNIT "

― Attica Locke , The Cutting Season

9 " Lorraine had come to honor a woman she didn’t even know, simply because she had walked among them, no matter how invisible. Dell and Pearl and Ennis Mabry had also come. ’Cause that’s just what black folks do. Southerners, too. "

― Attica Locke , The Cutting Season

10 " The origins of the bottle tree were African, Helen had once told her; it was a folk tradition brought to this country by slaves, who, working with whatever materials were at hand, devised a crude method of catching and trapping malevolent spirits, to prevent their passage through human doors. "

― Attica Locke , The Cutting Season