“The boy didn't know where he and his family were, other than one name: Mississippi.”
― Larry Brown, quote from Joe
“Couldn’t get no closer and couldn’t get no further away.”
― Larry Brown, quote from Joe
“The road lay long and black ahead of them and the heat was coming now through the thin soles of their shoes. There were young beans pushing up from the dry brown fields, tiny rows of green sprigs that stretched away in the distance.”
― Larry Brown, quote from Joe
“That boy,” he said. “I’ve done him ever favor I could. Some folks you can’t do nothing with. Just sorry. God knows I’ve done plenty of drinking and stuff in my time, but I be damn if I ever tried to cheat anybody out of any money.”
― Larry Brown, quote from Joe
“In the countryside by nights without the moon, there sometimes roamed an indigent, a recycled reject with eyes sifting the darkness and sorting the scattered scents, walking beside deep hollows and ditches of stinking water. The hours he kept were usually reserved for the drunk and the sleeping. With his sloe-lidded eyes that in the daytime tried to hide from the sun, he spied treasures all over the land. No thing unlocked was safe from his grasp, he who could squat in the road and talk to the dogs and still their dying growls, all save one”
― Larry Brown, quote from Joe
Larry Brown
Born place: in Oxford, Mississippi, The United States
Born date July 9, 1951
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“Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.”
― Eckhart Tolle, quote from A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
“There are things spies often carry with them: pocket litter, fake IDs, and the occasional weapon-slash-camera-slash-hair accessory. But the heaviest things, I think, are the secrets. They can drown you if you let them. As I sat inside Sublevel Two that day, I knew the one I held was so heavy I might never see the surface again.”
― Ally Carter, quote from Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover
“« Je suis persuadé que chaque fois qu'un homme sourit et mieux encore lorsqu'il rit, il ajoute quelque chose à la durée de sa vie.»”
― Laurence Sterne, quote from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
“Can you honestly love a dishonest thing?”
― John Steinbeck, quote from The Winter of Our Discontent
“Dad, who knew that Mother’s favorite poet was Browning and suspected where the Robert came from, nevertheless bunched the fingers of his right hand, kissed their tips, and threw his hand into the air. “Ah, Robert,” he intoned, “if I could but taste the nectar of thy lips.”
― Frank B. Gilbreth Jr., quote from Cheaper by the Dozen
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The Railway Children
Good Grief
Wanted
The Crow Road
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