...out of the blue, he kissed me. Right in the middle of the Robert E. Lee Hotel Restaurant, he kissed me so slowly with an open mouth and every single thing in my body-my skin, my collarbone, the hollow backs of my knees, everything inside of me filled up with light.

I intend to stay on her like hair on soap.

With other people, Hilly hands out lies like the Presbyterians hand out guilt, but it's our own silent agreement, this strict honesty, perhaps the one thing that has kept us friends

Ever morning, until you dead in the ground, you gone have to make this decision. You gone have to ask yourself, "Am I gone believe what them fools say about me today?

Who knew paper and ink could be so vicious

And you call yourself a Christian,' were Hilly's words to me and I thought, God. When did I ever do that?

I always order the banned books from a black market dealer in California, figuring if the State of Mississippi banned them, they must be good.