“Seasons didn't come behind the nicotine-stained walls of Mountain City's prison, so Harm always imagined it spring--the locust trees clustered with shaggy… — Sharyn McCrumb Copy Share Image
“Raw Living: Picking blackberries, beneath late afternoon sun; a sunset reminiscent of watermelon sangria, as the scent of honeysuckle accosts me and… — Brandi L. Bates Copy Share Image
“The central character is an incomplete package of yearning that takes the length of the novel to complete. Completion, though, is not… — Patricia Hickman Copy Share Image
“We all have scars. Just because mine are hidden doesn’t make them any less painful.” — Nicki Salcedo Copy Share Image
“Ain’t nothing too serious. Even death is a joke on the old devil, if we are living for the Lord.” — Nancy B. Brewer Copy Share Image
“There is an old saying that every story, even your own, is either happy or sad depending on where you stop telling… — Wiley Cash Copy Share Image
“I started out hoping to remind people at some point in the novel that we should be loving and kind. But then… — Patricia Hickman Copy Share Image
“There were thousands of children just like her in the world. She had walked through the fire and come out the other… — J.L. Murphey Copy Share Image
“He ascended the mountain in darkness, no lamplight, a world black and silver and blue. The moon lay scattered through the woods… — Taylor Brown Copy Share Image
“When we became teenagers boredom grew like a moth in a cocoon fighting to escape, and the peace created by our parents… — Scott Thompson Copy Share Image
“Humans need each other for equilibrium and support. But writers must pull aside to take a quiet walk alone, not just for… — Patricia Hickman Copy Share Image
“Christians are the salt of the earth...Nothing grows where they've been.” — Donald Hays Copy Share Image
“It felt like I had a thousand packs of Strawberry Pop Rocks simultaneously detonating in my chest, and I dilated at least… — Piper Faust Copy Share Image
“The confessional writer will treat her story like a wailing wall. She kneels, and her story spills out, messy, improper. It isn’t… — Patricia Hickman Copy Share Image
“Nothing helps your partner keep his mind on Jesus more than having a sign of His love tanned on your primary erogenous… — Scott B. Pruden Copy Share Image
“By the standards of a tourist strolling past looking for a quick lunch, the place was a dive. The sign on the… — Scott B. Pruden Copy Share Image
“Nobody ever told me you can't bury somebody up North in the wintertime.” — Lisa Patton Copy Share Image
“Easy for you to say," Polly said. "You've lived here all your life and stayed under the radar. No one points at… — Kathy Hepinstall Copy Share Image
“They later moved to a tin-roof house that was situated in a gas field under a spectacular flare that burned all the… — Charles Portis Copy Share Image
“We don't always get what we want. And sometimes, when we do, it's not worth the price.” — Stephanie Lawton Copy Share Image
“It wasn’t dying that she feared, it was dying bad: leaving her grandboy alone in the world, unprotected, his wounds unhealed. Death,… — Taylor Brown Copy Share Image
“We were about to make love in the same bed I shared with my husband, and the extent of our immorality was… — Jaguar Jonez Copy Share Image
“Their eyes locked. Again, heat rose to Livy's cheeks. He needed to stop looking at her that way. She never should have… — Teresa Tysinger Copy Share Image
