“Work and pray, live on hay,You'll get pie in the sky when you die.-Joe Hill, The Preacher and the Slave”

“I was tired of well-meaning folks, telling me it was time I got over being heartbroke. When somebody tells you that, a little bell ought to ding in your mind. Some people don't know grief from garl...”

“There was another thing I had forgotten about the South: It was the one place on earth where an unsuspecting person could get killed by kindness.”

“This is how the soul heals. it thaws out bit by bit, the way the ground warms after a hard winter. you notive the sun or hear the whippoorwill calling across the flats. You sweep your porch, go dri...”

“It paid to be cultured, just as long as you didn't start growing bacteria.”

“He just knew we would find luck, but believing something don't make it true.”

“Gossip is just a tool to distract people who have nothing better to do from feeling jealous of those few of us still remaining with noble hearts.”

“If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody come sit next to me.”

“Gossip, as usual, was one-third right and two-thirds wrong.”

“Two wrongs never add up to a right. But it's okay, I always sucked at maths.”