“How do you wake up? It was one thing to know that you had been asleep all your life, but something else to wake up from it, to find out you were really alive and it wasn't anybody's fault but… — Don Carpenter Copy Share Image
“She had done worse, all right, lots worse. She had been a thief, a pimp, a blackmailer, a junkie, a liar and a cheat. She had pretended to love men she had despised. She had done it all, and none of it had worked. Every time she got into a place where she might have had a chance, something inside… — Don Carpenter Copy Share
“They grew some of their own vegetables, but Semple was never in eighteen years allowed out into the truck gardens. Instead, he watched out… — Don Carpenter Copy Share Image
“I consider my work optimistic in that the people, during the period I’m writing about them, are experiencing intense emotion. It is my belief… — Don Carpenter Copy Share Image
“How do you wake up? It was one thing to know that you had been asleep all your life, but something else to wake… — Don Carpenter Copy Share Image
“How do you wake up? It was one thing to know that you had been asleep all your life, but something else to wake… — Don Carpenter Copy Share Image
“All night long, in his cell, he burned with hatred. It did not matter what he thought, it was how he felt; and alone… — Don Carpenter Copy Share Image
