I don't even have a choice. Rachel thought how that was pretty much true of everything now, that you got one choice at the beginning but if you didn't choose right, and she hadn't, things got narrow real quick. Like trying to wade a river, she thought. You take a wrong step and set your foot on a wobbly rock or in a drop-off and you're swept away, and all you can do then is try to survive.
Ron RashI think writing a poem is like being a greyhound. Writing a novel is like being a mule. You go up one long row, then down another, and try not to look up too often to see how far you still have to go.
Ron RashYou got one choice at the beginning but if you didn't choose right, things got narrow real quick.
Ron RashIt struck her how eating was a comfort during a hard time because it reminded you that there had been other days, good days, when youโd eaten the same thing. Reminded you there were good days in life, when precious little else did. (268)
Ron RashShort fiction is the medium I love the most, because it requires that I bring everything I've learned about poetry - the concision, the ability to say something as vividly as possible - but also the ability to create a narrative that, though lacking a novel's length, satisfies the reader.
Ron RashShe realized that being starved for words was the same as being starved for food, because both left a hollow place inside you, a place you needed filled to make it through another day. Rachel remembered how growing up sheโd thought living on a farm with just a father was as lonely as you could be. (130)
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