-she remembered them kindly, for there was a sweetness in boys that didn't last long, once they became men.

They say money kinda melts when you take it across a border.

It's really quite simple. Mr. Isinglass robbed my father, destroyed my mother, exiled my brothers, and ruined me. If I catch him asleep I'll kill him. I do hope you like this pudding. I had to ride quite a way to find the plums.

I once owned a collection of 77 novels that won the Pulitzer. The only good novel of the bunch was The Grapes of Wrath.

Razzy was insulting me silently somehow.

I'm sure partial to the evening,' Augustus said. 'The evening and the morning. If we just didn't have to have the rest of the dern day I'd be a lot happier.

Only a rank degenerate would drive 1,500 miles across Texas without eating a chicken fried steak.