Things are never as bad as they seem.
Southern lawyers don't read novels much.
Folks were doin' a lot of runnin' that night
Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives.
It's better to be silent than to be a fool.
Characters make their own plot. The dimensions of the characters determine the action of the novel.