“Everyone's always tryin to find an entrance to the kingdom of heaven, she says. Me, I ain't so interested in entrances. All… — Alden Bell Kingdom of heaven Copy Share Image
“It's one of the happy things about a world gone so wrong: your personal freakishness don't stand out so much.” — Alden Bell Apocalypse Copy Share Image
“She thinks of James Grierson. His Kisses tasted like whiskey, and they landed right and true.” — Alden Bell Kisses Copy Share Image
“You Griersons are a touchy bunch. One minute it's biscuits and model ships and the next minute it's outrage and horror.” — Alden Bell Outrage Copy Share Image
“You somehow make it outta here and track me down, you best come with a furious rage--because I got no use for… — Alden Bell Anger Copy Share Image
“The world, it treats you kind enough so long as you're not fighting against it.” — Alden Bell Copy Share Image
“The world, it treats you kind enough so long as you're not fightin against it.” — Alden Bell Copy Share Image
“Hey, girl. You awake over there?" "Yeah, I'm awake." Just this seems to satisfy him for a minute. Confirmation of awakeness, the… — Alden Bell Copy Share Image
“But still and all, you can cherish a miracle without deserving one. We’re all of us beholden to the beauty of the… — Alden Bell Beauty Copy Share Image
“They belong, Temple thinks. They have the stink of belonging wherever they go. This world is their world, and they take possession… — Alden Bell Belonging Copy Share Image
“Stories that pander to your every readerly desire and whim are like overly loyal dogs that live for the simple glow of… — Alden Bell Cats Copy Share Image
“It don't matter, she says. It just comes from thinkin too much. That's why you can't slow down for long. You gotta… — Alden Bell Copy Share Image
“Truth be told, the inward gaze is something she's not too fond of. But there are secrets that lurk in the mind,… — Alden Bell Copy Share Image
“...you can't put nothing past these southern boys. They just sit around waiting for somebody to kill their brother so they can… — Alden Bell Brother Copy Share Image
“...and she's thinking of rage, like an ember or a burning acid swallowing up her knotted viscera. Blindness like the kind that… — Alden Bell Anger Copy Share Image
“It makes people feel good to build somethin big. Makes people feel like they're makin progress, I reckon. Progress toward what? It… — Alden Bell Growth Copy Share Image
“...a noisy parade of memories that frustrate her because of the way they play themselves out. These memories-it feels like she's back… — Alden Bell Bad choices Copy Share Image
“He was here once before but that was in a different lifetime, when wonders were rare and announced—like amusement parks or school… — Alden Bell Amusement parks Copy Share Image
“She tells of moments when she would forget, when her own simmering evil would seem to dissipate and let through the clear… — Alden Bell Life Copy Share Image
“To stop. To cease, just for a moment. To turn your back on the world, to close your eyes - to see… — Alden Bell Apocalypse Copy Share Image
“She leaves him sitting there, glancing back just once before going through the stairwell door and observing how the cloud of smoke… — Alden Bell Smoke Copy Share Image
“All of a sudden, there is no hurry. There will be time for everything. For the breezes that blow and for the… — Alden Bell Big things Copy Share Image
“It never meant anything, Moses says. Not to the god above it and not to the earth below it. It never did.… — Alden Bell Abraham Copy Share Image
“There is no pain - just travel. On her knees, she stays still as a supplicant ready for communion. It is very… — Alden Bell Big things Copy Share Image
“There are some things she doesn't like to think about because thinking about them takes up every part of her mind and… — Alden Bell Mind Copy Share Image
“I think maybe I was just waitin on the apocalypse so I would have something to occupy me.” — Alden Bell Apocalypse Copy Share Image
“Your life ain't a target for the world to shoot at. The world is a target for your life to shoot at.” — Alden Bell Goals Copy Share Image
“He nods, his eyes on her like he's reading a book he's just getting to the end of and can't be interrupted.” — Alden Bell Books Copy Share Image
“God is a slick god. Temple Knows. She knows because of all the crackerjack miracles still to be seen on this ruined… — Alden Bell God Copy Share Image
“In her own experience she's learned that happiness and sadness find their own level no matter what's biting you, mosquitoes or meatskins.” — Alden Bell Copy Share Image
“Pushing through some viney branches, she comes into a clearing andfinds a sight that makes her hush--and not just her voice but… — Alden Bell Silence Copy Share Image
“Beyond the pursuit of meaning and beyond good and evil too, she says. See, it’s a daily chore tryin to do the… — Alden Bell Beyond good and evil Copy Share Image
“Some people, he says, they hide themselves away from the eyes of the world. They hunker down and shiver. They find four… — Alden Bell Copy Share Image
“It has become something to her, that memory — something she can take out in dismal times and stare into like a… — Alden Bell Blind Copy Share Image
