“Maybe Larry was wrong about the word friend, maybe he'd been shoved away from everybody for so long all he was was a sponge for the wrongs other people did.” — Tom Franklin Copy Share Image
“He buys Playboy magazines and looks through them once, then gives them to me. That’s what it’s like to be rich. Here’s what it’s… — Tom Franklin Copy Share Image
“He found the first skipped meals were the hardest, the hunger a hollow ache. The longer he went without eating, though, the second day,… — Tom Franklin Copy Share Image
“The visit hadn't lasted much longer, and Wallace never said what he'd done, but after Larry watched him go, he'd spent the rest of… — Tom Franklin Copy Share Image
“Maybe she'd needed her dream to come true to realize it was the wrong dream.” — Tom Franklin Copy Share Image
“At some point, Alice slipped one arm and then the other into the coat's sleeves, she buttoned its buttons, starting at the top. Silas… — Tom Franklin Copy Share Image
“Dawn crept up out of the trees, defining a bole, a burl, a leaf at a time the world he'd spent the night trying… — Tom Franklin Copy Share Image
“The seat belt irked his father more than Uncle Colin's not eating meat, because, though his father never said it, Larry knew he considered… — Tom Franklin Copy Share Image
“Was that what childhood was? Things rushing by out a window, the trees connected by motion, going too fast for him to notice the… — Tom Franklin Copy Share Image
“Ham had a way of encouraging intimacy, of making you feel you'd known him for years, and only when you had known him for… — Tom Franklin Copy Share Image
