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We want what's in this world but we also want what ain't.

Nothing is but what is now

You men notice so little, Pemberton. Physical strength is your gender's sole advantage.

An image came back to him with such vividness that it might have been framed before him in glass

He suspected the workers thought of Serena as beyond gender, the same as they might some phenomenon of nature such as rain or lightning.

She had not remembered then what she remembers now, a memory like something buried in river silt that finally works free and rises to the surface ...

She walks in beauty.

The worst thing the nineteen sixties did to this country was introduce drugs to rednecks,

A Servant of History
Her eyes were of the lightest blue as if time had rinsed away most of the colour, but there was a liveliness inside them.

'Cool-Hand Luke' is one of my favorite movies.

He couldn't imagine such a moment, believed instead that Serena's beauty was like certain laws of math and physics, fixed and immutable

Pemberton felt something shift inside him, something small but definite, the way a knob's slight twist allowed a door to swing wide open.

She'd never known fear had a taste, but it did.

What does eminent domain mean?" Stewart asked. "It means you're shit out of luck," Ross said.

A small profit it better than a big loss

I learnt how to hunt rattlesnakes with an eagle for 'Serena.'

Faulkner came from my region and taught me how you could write about a place.

I wouldn't mind being a track and field coach.

Don't love anything that can be taken away.

A great business investment, religion. I'll take it over government bonds anytime.

I guess sometimes you've got the hope-fors so much it makes you imagine all sorts of things.

Wisely reconsidered and let the hand

Dead and still in the world was worse than dead and in the ground. Dead in the ground at least gave you the hope of heaven.

Petrichord: the sound of water sliding over smooth stone.

Not for the first time, it occurred to me that sorrow could be purified into song the same way a piece of coal is purified into a diamond.

A place where something so terrible had happened shouldn't continue to exist in the world

One of my goals is to allow readers to see my characters and the world they inhabit as vividly as possible.

The world lies all before us.

As I get older I find myself thinking it all begins with Shakespeare.

Superstitions are just coincidence or ignorance.

You got one choice at the beginning but if you didn't choose right, things got narrow real quick.

And darkness. You can't see it no more than you can see air, but when it's all around you sure enough know it.

The world is ripe, and we'll pluck it like an apple from a tree.

Others can make us vulnerable and the sooner such vulnerabilities are dealt with the better

One thing's sure and nothing surer. The rich get richer and the poor get- children

He'd felt incredibly lucky they'd found one another, though Serena had already told him their meeting wasn't mere good fortune but inevitability.

We had some good times at school. I didn't know how good those times was till I left, but I guess that's the way of it

It's a hard place this world can be. No wonder a baby cries coming in to it. Tears from the start

Most folks stay in the dark and then complain they can't see nothing.

Spend a long time alone, especially if you're someone who's never been that social to begin with, and you find yourself craving solitude.

Do this one thing.