“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 that this is all there is to it.” — 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.… — Don Carpenter Copy Share Image
“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
