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Wolf Whistle QUOTES

Wolf Whistle QUOTES

1 " Roy Dale suspected that Mississippi was beautiful. He wasn't sure. He didn't have anything to compare it to. He hadn't even ever been out of the Delta. "

― Lewis Nordan , Wolf Whistle

2 " In a little while they were kissing. In a little while longer, they made their slow sweet love.

The iron bed sounded like a pine forest in an ice storm, like a switch track in a Memphis trainyard, like the sweet electrical thunder of habitual love and the tragical history of the constant heart. Auntee finished first, and then Uncle soon after, and their lips were touching lightly as they did.

The rain was still falling and the scritch owl was still asleep and the dragonflies were hidden like jewels somewhere in deep brown wet grasses, nobody knew where.

Uncle rolled away from his wife and held onto her hand, never let it go, old friend, old partner, passionate wife. "

― Lewis Nordan , Wolf Whistle

3 " The Mississippi Delta is not always dark with rain. Some autumn mornings, the sun rises over Moon Lake, or Eagle, or Choctaw, or Blue, or Roebuck, all the wide, deep waters of the state, and when it does, its dawn is as rosy with promise and hope as any other. "

― Lewis Nordan , Wolf Whistle

4 " The day Glenn Gregg's daddy got back from New Orleans was the same day Lady Sally Anne Montberclair decided to park her big white Cadillac out in front of Red's Goodlookin Bar and Gro. and leave the motor running and scoot inside, out of the first drops of rain, on an errand. Glenn's daddy was named Solon. "

― Lewis Nordan , Wolf Whistle

5 " Even Solon Gregg was finding it hard to speak to a woman who had just paid hard cash for tampons and on her face wore the look of a woman who meant to use them, as advertised. "

― Lewis Nordan , Wolf Whistle

6 " Uncle said, "If love would save him, wouldn't no harm come to him. "

― Lewis Nordan , Wolf Whistle

7 " Alice leaned first one way and then the other, down the line of children. She said, Is everybody understanding this?"
One child said, "The misuse of power is the root of all evil?"
Alice said, "Well...."
Another child said, "There is no justice on the earth?"
Alice said, "Well..."
Another child said, "We are all alone in the world?"
Alice said, "Well..."
Another child said, "The greatest depth of our loss is the beginning of true freedom?"
Alice said, "Well..."
Another child said, "The disposal of human waste is the responsibility of the brokenhearted?"
These were all phrases Alice had put on the chalkboard after other field trips. It occurred to Alice, hearing these phrases now, that she might have attempted to do too much with a class of fourth graders. She was willing to admit to some excesses.
Alice said, "Just listen. "

― Lewis Nordan , Wolf Whistle