The Thicket

[T]hose who refuse to consider what they do are cloaked in the shadow of stupidity, but they enjoy the shade. It is cool and comfortable there.

God is an idea, the devil is us.

I trust the sun to rise and the sun to set, though I know one day it will do these things without me.

I didn't suspect the day Grandfather came out and got me and my sister, Lula, and hauled us off toward the ferry that I'd soon end up with worse things happening than had already come upon us or that I'd take up with a gun-shooting dwarf, the son of a slave, and a big angry hog, let alone find true love and kill someone, but that's exactly how it was.

But killing a man ought to mean something, even if you have to do it.

He prayed loudly to Jesus to save him. Jesus didn’t show, and considering what that fellow had been a part of I couldn’t blame him.

If a pig had flown by with a deck of cards in its teeth it wouldn’t have fazed me.

Comanche can be vengeful one second and give you food and a buffalo robe the next, though they are not quick to give away a horse. Horses are their survival. They are great horsemen.

include the hog IN our organization such as it is...Have you meet our secretary ?

I didn't expect the day Grandfather came out and got me and my sister, Lula, and hauled us off toward the ferry that I'd soon end up with worse things happening than had already come upon us of that I'd take up with a gun-slinging dwarf, the son of a slave, and a big angry hog, let alone find true love and kill somone, but that's exactly how it was.

Just a year ago I kept thinking this ain’t fair, the way things have turned out for me. Then it come to me clean as spring rain. Life is just what it is, and it ain’t fair at all.” “Can’t we make it fair?” “You can try, but all that other unfairness keeps seeping in.

We took what came the way it came. Least it was that way on the surface. You scratched us a little, though, you could find some jelly there pretty quick. We were the kind that found it hard to cry, but once we got started you best be ready for high water and the loading of animals two by two.

I put out the lamp, left Hog snoring, crept outside, and got some air, which was rich and sticky, like a sweaty horse shank, full of the sounds of cicadas and crickets and more than a few bleating frogs.

Daddy always said Grandpa was so tight that when he blinked the skin on his pecker rolled back.

those who refuse to consider what they do are cloaked in the shadow of stupidity, but they enjoy the shade. It is cool and comfortable there.

In the morning light the land and trees and the surface of the river were the color of fresh blood.