Your dreams, what you hope for and all that, it's not separate from your life. It grows right up out of it.

If it's important, your heart remembers.

There's always a part of your nation's history that you haven't been told that... has a powerful impact on how you yourself may behave and may believe.

Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very suspicious of outsiders, so there's a sort of 'us versus them' situation. They're easy to poke fun at.

Listen. To live is to be marked. To live is to change, to acquire the words of a story, and that is the only celebration we mortals really know. In perfect stillness, frankly, I've only found sorrow.

That's how it is: some people are content to wait till you ask, while others jump right in with the whole story.

Poor Congo, barefoot bride of men who took her jewels and promised the Kingdom.