“Seasons didn't come behind the nicotine-stained walls of Mountain City's prison, so Harm always imagined it spring--the locust trees clustered with shaggy white blooms, the wet woods flecked with bloodroot, and wild roses and honeysuckle flashing white among the chestnuts… — Sharyn McCrumb Copy Share Image
“There is a time in late September when the leaves are still green, and the days are still warm, but somehow you know that it is all about to end, as if summer was holding its breath, and when it… — Sharyn McCrumb Copy Share Image
“Seasons didn't come behind the nicotine-stained walls of Mountain City's prison, so Harm always imagined it spring--the locust trees clustered with shaggy white blooms,… — Sharyn McCrumb Copy Share Image
SHADOW KNIGHT'S MATE is a compelling story, extremely well-written and alarmingly plausible. Jay Brandon does for politics what Dan Brown did for religion. — Sharyn McCrumb Copy Share Image
Cities are judged by their richest inhabitants and rural areas are judged — Sharyn McCrumb Copy Share Image
“The people who live happily ever after - they don't appear in the history books. They just fade away. I reckon that's what happiness… — Sharyn McCrumb Copy Share Image
I wonder which is worse-the death, not knowing what comes after, or the wedding, when you think you know, but you're wrong. — Sharyn McCrumb Copy Share Image
Machines seem to sense that I am afraid of them. It makes them hostile. — Sharyn McCrumb Copy Share Image
“Oh, son, hardly anybody wants to leave. These mountains are more than just a place for folks around here.” — Sharyn McCrumb Copy Share Image
“There is a time in late September when the leaves are still green, and the days are still warm, but somehow you know that… — Sharyn McCrumb Copy Share Image
“Being a professional writer is a lot like being a hooker. You'd better find out if you're any good at it before you start… — Sharyn McCrumb Copy Share Image
“The most momentous events in life—baptisms, weddings, and funerals—don’t seem to take much time, but the effects of them bind up the whole of… — Sharyn McCrumb Copy Share Image
You take a handful of rocks and put them in a jar. Then once a week, you take one tiny pebble out of the… — Sharyn McCrumb Copy Share Image
