...like a scene from the swamps of Louisiana or the mind of Poe on opium.

Your mind always does worse things than people can show in a movie.

Readers will stay with an author, no matter what the variations in style and genre, as long as they get that sense of story, of character, of empathetic involvement.

Loss is the hardest thing, I said. But it's also the teacher that's the most difficult to ignore.

Life, Stormy says, is not about how fast you run or even with what degree of grace. It's about perseverance, about staying on your feet and slogging forward no matter what.

Nothing is worse than being alone on the evening of the day when one's cow has exploded.

Sorrow is not a raven perched persistently above a chamber door. Sorrow is a thing with teeth, and while in time it retreats, it comes back at the whisper of it's name.