“God is a slick god. Temple Knows. She knows because of all the crackerjack miracles still to be seen on this ruined… — Alden Bell God Copy Share Image
“There are some things she doesn't like to think about because thinking about them takes up every part of her mind and… — Alden Bell Mind Copy Share Image
“Your life ain't a target for the world to shoot at. The world is a target for your life to shoot at.” — Alden Bell Goals Copy Share Image
“The world, it treats you kind enough so long as you're not fighting against it.” — Alden Bell Fighting Copy Share Image
“The world, it treats you kind enough so long as you're not fightin against it.” — Alden Bell Kind Copy Share Image
“You somehow make it outta here and track me down, you best come with a furious rage--because I got no use for… — Alden Bell Anger Copy Share Image
“It's one of the happy things about a world gone so wrong: your personal freakishness don't stand out so much.” — Alden Bell Apocalypse Copy Share Image
“You Griersons are a touchy bunch. One minute it's biscuits and model ships and the next minute it's outrage and horror.” — Alden Bell Copy Share Image
“Truth be told, the inward gaze is something she's not too fond of. But there are secrets that lurk in the mind,… — Alden Bell Delicious-prose Copy Share Image
“It don't matter, she says. It just comes from thinkin too much. That's why you can't slow down for long. You gotta… — Alden Bell Matter Says Copy Share Image
“Stories that pander to your every readerly desire and whim are like overly loyal dogs that live for the simple glow of… — Alden Bell Cats Copy Share Image
“Some people, he says, they hide themselves away from the eyes of the world. They hunker down and shiver. They find four… — Alden Bell Copy Share Image
“It has become something to her, that memory — something she can take out in dismal times and stare into like a… — Alden Bell Blind Copy Share Image
“It never meant anything, Moses says. Not to the god above it and not to the earth below it. It never did.… — Alden Bell Abraham Copy Share Image
“All of a sudden, there is no hurry. There will be time for everything. For the breezes that blow and for the… — Alden Bell Big things Copy Share Image
“She leaves him sitting there, glancing back just once before going through the stairwell door and observing how the cloud of smoke… — Alden Bell Copy Share Image
“In her own experience she's learned that happiness and sadness find their own level no matter what's biting you, mosquitoes or meatskins.” — Alden Bell Biting Copy Share Image
“He nods, his eyes on her like he's reading a book he's just getting to the end of and can't be interrupted.” — Alden Bell Books Copy Share Image
“I think maybe I was just waitin on the apocalypse so I would have something to occupy me.” — Alden Bell Life lessons Copy Share Image
“Hey, girl. You awake over there?" "Yeah, I'm awake." Just this seems to satisfy him for a minute. Confirmation of awakeness, the… — Alden Bell Sleep Copy Share Image
“She thinks of James Grierson. His Kisses tasted like whiskey, and they landed right and true.” — Alden Bell Kisses Copy Share Image
“Everyone's always tryin to find an entrance to the kingdom of heaven, she says. Me, I ain't so interested in entrances. All… — Alden Bell Kingdom of heaven Copy Share Image
“...and she's thinking of rage, like an ember or a burning acid swallowing up her knotted viscera. Blindness like the kind that… — Alden Bell Anger Copy Share Image
“...you can't put nothing past these southern boys. They just sit around waiting for somebody to kill their brother so they can… — Alden Bell Brother Copy Share Image
“They belong, Temple thinks. They have the stink of belonging wherever they go. This world is their world, and they take possession… — Alden Bell Belonging Copy Share Image
“But still and all, you can cherish a miracle without deserving one. We’re all of us beholden to the beauty of the… — Alden Bell Beauty Copy Share Image
“It makes people feel good to build somethin big. Makes people feel like they're makin progress, I reckon. Progress toward what? It… — Alden Bell Growth Copy Share Image
“Beyond the pursuit of meaning and beyond good and evil too, she says. See, it’s a daily chore tryin to do the… — Alden Bell Beyond good and evil Copy Share Image
“Pushing through some viney branches, she comes into a clearing andfinds a sight that makes her hush--and not just her voice but… — Alden Bell Silence Copy Share Image
“She tells of moments when she would forget, when her own simmering evil would seem to dissipate and let through the clear… — Alden Bell Life Copy Share Image
“To stop. To cease, just for a moment. To turn your back on the world, to close your eyes - to see… — Alden Bell Apocalypse Copy Share Image
“He was here once before but that was in a different lifetime, when wonders were rare and announced—like amusement parks or school… — Alden Bell Amusement parks Copy Share Image
“...a noisy parade of memories that frustrate her because of the way they play themselves out. These memories-it feels like she's back… — Alden Bell Bad choices Copy Share Image
“There is no pain - just travel. On her knees, she stays still as a supplicant ready for communion. It is very… — Alden Bell Big things Copy Share Image
