“Alice leaned first one way and then the other, down the line of children. She said, Is everybody understanding this?" One child said, "The misuse of power is the root of all evil?" Alice said, "Well…" Another child said, "There… — Lewis Nordan Copy Share Image
“She said, "Daddy thinks that all the world's magic is almost evolved out." I thought of Roebuck Lake, its swamps and sloughs and loblollies… — Lewis Nordan Copy Share Image
“Roy Dale suspected that Mississippi was beautiful. He wasn't sure. He didn't have anything to compare it to. He hadn't even ever been out… — Lewis Nordan Copy Share Image
“Big G.B. said, "Your Daddy ain't magic." I said, "He ain't?" He said, "Naw, there ain't any magic." I said, "What about the blind… — Lewis Nordan Copy Share Image
A thousand times, when the train slowed or stopped, I thought of jumping off. I wanted to die in a ditch. I wanted to… — Lewis Nordan Copy Share Image
“When I was your age I knew how to listen to television and learn a few things.” — Lewis Nordan Copy Share Image
The Mississippi Delta is not always dark with rain. Some autumn mornings, the sun rises over Moon Lake, or Eagle, or Choctaw, or Blue,… — Lewis Nordan Copy Share Image
“Self-blame is usually a way of avoiding something more hideous anyway, something you’re willing to be punished for but unwilling to change, or even… — Lewis Nordan Copy Share Image
“Mr. Raney named the porpoises - Sister Woman, and Renford, and Lamar, and St. Elmo - and could recognize them, and call each by… — Lewis Nordan Copy Share Image
Even Solon Gregg was finding it hard to speak to a woman who had just paid hard cash for tampons and on her face… — Lewis Nordan Copy Share Image
“The day Glenn Gregg's daddy got back from New Orleans was the same day Lady Sally Anne Montberclair decided to park her big white… — Lewis Nordan Copy Share Image
“Alice leaned first one way and then the other, down the line of children. She said, Is everybody understanding this?" One child said, "The… — Lewis Nordan Copy Share Image
In my mind, I gave the woman gifts. I gave her a candle stub. I gave her a box of wooden kitchen matches. I… — Lewis Nordan Copy Share Image
