“I thought to myself then that it didn't matter where I ended up; I'd always be living that summer in that town, wishing that I;d done things differently, tormented by the fact that I hadn't. I'd never go far enough… — Lee Martin Copy Share Image
“That dream was still in my head, that crazy dream about Katie and me on Dumbo the elephant and Mr. Dees walking in the… — Lee Martin Copy Share
“Uncertainty is a good thing at the end of a narrative. A simultaneous gain and loss captures the complexity of human existence. The way… — Lee Martin Copy Share
“When someone you love disappears, it's like the light goes dim, and you're in the shadows. You try to do what people tell you:… — Lee Martin Copy Share
“That's the way it was, always will be. nothing we can do to make it different. It's a story now, and stories have endings… — Lee Martin Copy Share
“Is it too late?" I asked Margot Cherry that afternoon. It's been more than thirty years and still I can remember how my voice… — Lee Martin Copy Share
“[sic]Keep looking up, Mama used to tell me. There's nothing on the ground but your feet.” — Lee Martin Copy Share
“You can pretend that your life is going on when really, all along, you’re trapped in a moment you’ll never be able to change.” — Lee Martin Copy Share
“Some folks can't hide things. They don't have enough, not enough money or influence or shame.” — Lee Martin Copy Share
“I thought to myself then that it didn't matter where I ended up; I'd always be living that summer in that town, wishing that… — Lee Martin Copy Share
“... in a snap the world can fall down around you and leave you, for years and years, trying to get back to a… — Lee Martin Copy Share
“The measure of a man's character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.” — Lee Martin Copy Share
“Later, while she was sleeping, she woke to the sound of Ray moving through the house. At first she confused. She thought she was… — Lee Martin Copy Share
“I think it was this: like most of us, he was carrying a misery in his soul. I don't say it to forgive what… — Lee Martin Copy Share
“But there was a flip side to his fastidiousness. He saw that now. It was a nose-in-the-air way of moving through the world. In… — Lee Martin Copy Share
“Life had gone on. It always did. that's what you learned as you got older. Time. It kept moving. You wished you could change.… — Lee Martin Copy Share
