7 quotes found
“the gravity of wound to fist”
“Mothers burning inside the risen suns of their children.”
“Even if shed [Ossie] gotten away from him [her ghost fianc] the prognostications were grimalligators with unusual pigmentation cant camouflage themselves in the dust-and-olive palette of the swamp....”
“I'm not going anywhere," she told me that night. But until we are old ladies--a cypress age, a Sawtooth age--I will continue to link arms with her, in public, in private, in a panic of love.”
“As a kid I heard the word malignancy as "Malig-Nancy" like an evil woman's name, no matter how many times Kiwi and the Chief and Dr. Gautman himself corrected me. Our mother had mistaken her first ...”
“There were many deficits in our swamp education, but Grandpa Sawtooth, to his credit, taught us the names of whole townships that had been forgotten underwater. Black pioneers, Creek Indians, moons...”
“Even if she’d [Ossie] gotten away from him [her ghost fiancé] the prognostications were grim—alligators with unusual pigmentation can’t camouflage themselves in the dust-and-olive palette of the sw...”
