“My mother by then had already begun her own decline, her own transformation, hardening into a bitter rind of a woman who pushed through the stations of her day as though each moment were unpleasant duty; as though the currencies… — James Sallis Copy Share Image
“You're not very good at this, are you?' 'At what I do, I'm the best. This isn't what I do.” — James Sallis Copy Share Image
“Rina’s always claimed that I expect too little from life,” Standard said. “Then at least you’ll never be disappointed.” — James Sallis Copy Share Image
The best predictor of preschool children's physical activity is simply being outdoors. — James Sallis Copy Share Image
“Some brainless comedy where actors with perfect white teeth spoke their lines then froze in place to let the laugh track unwind.” — James Sallis Copy Share Image
He existed a step or two to one side of the common world, largely out of sight, a shadow, all but invisible. Whatever he… — James Sallis Copy Share Image
“In my junior year I discovered books. . . . Devoured [them] the way other kids did candy or sandwiches, spent days hunched over… — James Sallis Copy Share Image
“We're professionals. People make deals, they need to stick to them. That's the way it works, if it's going to work at all.” — James Sallis Copy Share Image
Mostly what you lose with time, in memory, is the specificity of things, their exact sequence. It all runs together, becomes a watery soup.… — James Sallis Copy Share Image
“We aren’t angels. Angels couldn’t breathe the air down here. They’d die.” — James Sallis Copy Share Image
Bombs fall and wipe out civilization as we know it, two things come up out of the ashes: roaches and F-150s. — James Sallis Copy Share Image
What critics might call eclectic, and Eastern folks quirky, we Southerners call cussedness-and it's the cornerstone of the American genius. As in: 'There's a… — James Sallis Copy Share Image
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