--- title: "3 Barbed wire Quotes By Ron Rash" description: "3 Barbed wire quotes by Ron Rash. Plus more from Ron Rash and more Barbed wire sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/31a/ron-rash-10377_alive_what-made-losing-someone-you-loved-beara_1132026.png" --- > [What made losing someone you loved bearable was not remembering but forgetting. Forgetting small things first... it's amazing how much you could…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ron-rash/what-made-losing-someone-you-loved-bearable-was-not-remembering-but/) [Ron Rash](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ron-rash/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/31a/ron-rash-10377_alive_what-made-losing-someone-you-loved-beara_1132026.png) > [“Then one morning she’d begun to feel her sorrow easing, like something jagged that had cut into her so long it had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ron-rash/then-one-morning-she-d-begun-to-feel-her-sorrow-easing-like-something/) [Ron Rash](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ron-rash/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3ca/ron-rash-10377_barbed-wire_then-one-morning-she-d-begun-to-feel-her_1558332.jpg) > [“It amazed Rachel how much you could forget, and everything you forgot made that person less alive inside you until you could…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ron-rash/it-amazed-rachel-how-much-you-could-forget-and-everything-you-forgot/) [Ron Rash](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ron-rash/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e09/ron-rash-10377_barbed-wire_it-amazed-rachel-how-much-you-could-forg_2850983.jpg) ## More by Ron Rash > [John Lane has long been recognized as one of the South's finest poets and memoirists. This debut establishes him as one of our finest…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ron-rash/john-lane-has-long-been-recognized-as-one-of-the-south-s-finest-poets/) [Ron Rash](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ron-rash/) > [“Maybe calling it being hitched ain’t the prettiest way to say you’re married, but it’s the truth to my mind and true in a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ron-rash/maybe-calling-it-being-hitched-ain-t-the-prettiest-way-to-say-you-re/) [Ron Rash](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ron-rash/) > [Short fiction is the medium I love the most, because it requires that I bring everything I've learned about poetry - the concision, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ron-rash/short-fiction-is-the-medium-i-love-the-most-because-it-requires-that/) [Ron Rash](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ron-rash/) > [“Dead and still in the world was worse than dead and in the ground. Dead in the ground at least gave you the hope…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ron-rash/dead-and-still-in-the-world-was-worse-than-dead-and-in-the-ground/) [Ron Rash](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ron-rash/) > [“We want what's in this world but we also want what ain't.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ron-rash/we-want-what-s-in-this-world-but-we-also-want-what-ain-t/) [Ron Rash](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ron-rash/) > [“The song was wistful as the ballads Slidell and the Clayton brothers played, except words weren't needed to feel the yearning. That made the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ron-rash/the-song-was-wistful-as-the-ballads-slidell-and-the-clayton-brothers/) [Ron Rash](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ron-rash/) > [“What does eminent domain mean?” Stewart asked. “It means you’re shit out of luck,” Ross said.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ron-rash/what-does-eminent-domain-mean-stewart-asked-it-means-you-re-shit-out/) [Ron Rash](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ron-rash/) > [“The world is ripe, and we'll pluck it like an apple from a tree.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ron-rash/the-world-is-ripe-and-we-ll-pluck-it-like-an-apple-from-a-tree/) [Ron Rash](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ron-rash/) > [Steve Yarbrough is a writer of many gifts, but what makes Safe from the Neighbors such a magnificent achievement is its moral complexity. .…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ron-rash/steve-yarbrough-is-a-writer-of-many-gifts-but-what-makes-safe-from/) [Ron Rash](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ron-rash/) > [“The lift of her heart she'd felt on the outcrop she now felt again, and it wasn't just love. She'd felt love before, known…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ron-rash/the-lift-of-her-heart-she-d-felt-on-the-outcrop-she-now-felt-again/) [Ron Rash](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ron-rash/) > [“Most folks stay in the dark and then complain they can’t see nothing.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ron-rash/most-folks-stay-in-the-dark-and-then-complain-they-can-t-see-nothing/) [Ron Rash](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ron-rash/) > [“Rachel kneeled beside Jacob. She took the child's hand and pressed it to the dirt. Her father had told Rachel that Harmons had been…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ron-rash/rachel-kneeled-beside-jacob-she-took-the-child-s-hand-and-pressed-it/) [Ron Rash](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ron-rash/) > [Faulkner came from my region and taught me how you could write about a place.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ron-rash/faulkner-came-from-my-region-and-taught-me-how-you-could-write-about/) [Ron Rash](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ron-rash/) > [I usually do at least a dozen drafts and progressively make more-conscious decisions. Because I've always believed stories are closer to poems than novels,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ron-rash/i-usually-do-at-least-a-dozen-drafts-and-progressively-make-more/) [Ron Rash](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ron-rash/) > [The woman doesn't look up. It's as if she's deaf. Maybe she is. Maybe she's like the Cambodian women I've read about, the ones…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ron-rash/the-woman-doesn-t-look-up-it-s-as-if-she-s-deaf-maybe-she-is-maybe/) [Ron Rash](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ron-rash/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/barbed-wire/ron-rash/#itemlist", "name": "3 Barbed wire Quotes By Ron Rash", "numberOfItems": 3, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "What made losing someone you loved bearable was not remembering but forgetting. Forgetting small things first... it's amazing how much you could forget, and everything you forgot made that person less alive inside you until you could finally endure it. After more time passed you could let yourself remember, even want to remember. 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