Carolina beach music," Dupree said, coming up on the porch. "The holiest sound on earth.

In family matters you can get over anything. That's one thing you'll learn as an adult. There's a lot you have to learn which is a lot worse than that. You'd never think of forgiving a friend for some of the things your parents did to you. But with friends it's different. Friends aren't the roll of the dice.

No story is a straight line. The geometry of a human life is too imperfect and complex, too distorted by the laughter of time and the bewildering intricacies of fate to admit the straight line into its system of laws.

I was trying to unravel the complicated trigonometry of the radical thought that silence could make up the greatest lie ever told.

My wound is geography. It is also my anchorage, my port of call.

... the wing of a fly is proof enough of the existence of God for me.

Carolina beach music," Dupree said, coming up on the porch. "The holiest sound on earth.