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It's hard to explain your passions, but sometimes it is harder to live them.

You can't see reality. You never could: You just distort the truth until you end up with a version you can live with.

There is a sneakiness about girls that they keep hid under sweetness and pouting and crying.

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.

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

As my daddy said, soil is the basis of everything.

You not trapped girl. Not unless you nailed to the floor.

She, if anyone, was on a hell-bound train. I mean, if you're masquerading as a do-gooder, why not go all the way?

I wondered if small town people became smaller in order to fit. Perhaps they had to.

The first time I saw my father-in-law's cotton, I though of the Original Sin, gardening being the root of the South's downfall.

But it comes to me that two wrongs don't make another wrong.

You have to coddle menfolks on account of their pride.

But I knew better: No matter where you go, the past floods back. You can try like the dickens, but you can't escape fate.

There is nothing harder than being your own rock.

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

Lord, I don't understand it, but when a person does something wrong, it never feels wrong until later. It's never as evil as you'd imagined.

Everybody's always doing the same old things
you know, doing unto others before they can do unto you.

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

It seemed clear that people in love lived in constant jeopardy. They were either making love or making each other crazy.

I should not have lied, but I did. Later, those lies came back to haunt me, bread cast on the water, tenfold.