Daniel Woodrell Quotes

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Love and hate hold hands always so it made natural sense that they'd get confused by upset married folk in the wee hours once in a while and a nosebleed or bruised breast might result. But it just seemed proof that a great foulness was afoot in the world when a no-strings roll in the hay with a stranger led to chipped teeth or cigarette burns on the wrist.

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Fading light buttered the ridges until shadows licked them clean and they were lost to nightfall.

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You got to be ready to die every day - then you got a chance.

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The heart's in it then, spinning dreams, and torment is on the way. The heart makes dreams seem like ideas.

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Long, dark, and lovely she had been, in those days before her mind broke and the parts scattered and she let them go.

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Ree, brunette and sixteen, with milk skin and abrupt green eyes, stood bare-armed in a fluttering yellowed dress, face to the wind, her cheeks reddening as if smacked and smacked again.

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Pine trees with low limbs spread over fresh snow made a stronger vault for the spirit than pews and pulpits ever could.

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I was not much used to women except for mothers. Everything I did, they did different.

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Gail had a baby named Ned who was four months old, and a new look of baffled hurt, a left-behind sadness, like she saw that the great world kept spinning onward and away while she'd overnight become glued to her spot.

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I, myself, often wished to be spared the expectation of better days ahead or such.

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