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> [“Grace began to understand. "I have friends," she protested. "I have Zaddie." "Zaddie is just a little colored girl," Mary-Love pointed out. "It's all right to play with Zaddie, but she's not your real friend. John Robert can be your…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-mcdowell/grace-began-to-understand-i-have-friends-she-protested-i-have-zaddie/)

[Michael McDowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-mcdowell/)

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## More by Michael McDowell

> [“Look down fair moon and bathe this scene, Pour softly down night’s nimbus floods on faces ghastly, swollen, purple, On the dead on their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-mcdowell/look-down-fair-moon-and-bathe-this-scene-pour-softly-down-night-s/)

[Michael McDowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-mcdowell/)

> [“It’s bad when the dead talk in dreams,” said Odessa.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-mcdowell/it-s-bad-when-the-dead-talk-in-dreams-said-odessa/)

[Michael McDowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-mcdowell/)

> [“She had got beyond despair.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-mcdowell/she-had-got-beyond-despair/)

[Michael McDowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-mcdowell/)

> [“Merle Weaver stroked the little girl's hair and thought of the two corpses in the rear of the truck.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-mcdowell/merle-weaver-stroked-the-little-girl-s-hair-and-thought-of-the-two/)

[Michael McDowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-mcdowell/)

> [“I sort of wish that was what happened though, Ginny, because that would mean the girl is all right. Fourteen-year-old girls have run off…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-mcdowell/i-sort-of-wish-that-was-what-happened-though-ginny-because-that-would/)

[Michael McDowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-mcdowell/)

> [“To the little girl the house seemed a gigantic head, and she only a morsel of meat conveniently positioned in its gaping mouth. The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-mcdowell/to-the-little-girl-the-house-seemed-a-gigantic-head-and-she-only-a/)

[Michael McDowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-mcdowell/)

> [“That her niece should find such profound pleasure in the company of a thirteen-year-old black girl--and, more to the point, always within the precincts…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-mcdowell/that-her-niece-should-find-such-profound-pleasure-in-the-company-of-a/)

[Michael McDowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-mcdowell/)

> [“That was the great misconception about men: because they dealt with money, because they could hire someone on and later fire him, because they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-mcdowell/that-was-the-great-misconception-about-men-because-they-dealt-with/)

[Michael McDowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-mcdowell/)

> [“Mary-Love liked to see herself as the family cornucopia, dispensing all manner of good things, unstintingly, unceasingly. She considered herself amply rewarded by her…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-mcdowell/mary-love-liked-to-see-herself-as-the-family-cornucopia-dispensing/)

[Michael McDowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-mcdowell/)

> [“Southerners are an easygoing race when it comes to aberrations of conduct. They will react with anger if something out of the ordinary is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-mcdowell/southerners-are-an-easygoing-race-when-it-comes-to-aberrations-of/)

[Michael McDowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-mcdowell/)

> [“In the hour before a thunderstorm, the color of the forest deepens: the pine needles take on a dense vibrant greenness they possess at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-mcdowell/in-the-hour-before-a-thunderstorm-the-color-of-the-forest-deepens-the/)

[Michael McDowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-mcdowell/)

> [“They placed the board between them on the kitchen table, and Becca took the suddenly inspired precaution of sprinkling the planchette with holy water…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-mcdowell/they-placed-the-board-between-them-on-the-kitchen-table-and-becca/)

[Michael McDowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-mcdowell/)

> [“Grace began to understand. "I have friends," she protested. "I have Zaddie." "Zaddie is just a little colored girl," Mary-Love pointed out. "It's all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-mcdowell/grace-began-to-understand-i-have-friends-she-protested-i-have-zaddie/)

[Michael McDowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-mcdowell/)

> [“No mother and daughter in Perdido were closer than Mary Love Caskey and Sister. But it was not to be supposed that either told…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-mcdowell/no-mother-and-daughter-in-perdido-were-closer-than-mary-love-caskey/)

[Michael McDowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-mcdowell/)

> [“I am a commercial writer and I'm proud of that. I am writing things to be put in the bookstore next month. I think…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-mcdowell/i-am-a-commercial-writer-and-i-m-proud-of-that-i-am-writing-things-to/)

[Michael McDowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-mcdowell/)

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