“To see certain things, you have to be lying on your back with tears in your eyes and a scalding potato in your mouth. It's possible, I think, that you have to be hurt to see anything at all.” — Pete Dexter Copy Share Image
“In the beginning the stories were long and colored, but as he grew old and his eyes clouded, the stories were told in only a few words, and she came to understand that all the colors had fallen away from him, leaving only the moments. A woman who performed tricks in the air, an animal pulling a boat under water,… — Pete Dexter Copy Share
“No one mentions that now, and I suppose no one is inclined to bring it up, particularly not my father, who in other matters loves those things most that he can no longer touch or see, things washed clean of flaws and ambiguity by the years he has held them in his memory, reshaping them as he brings them out,… — Pete Dexter Copy Share
“and low-life cable network producers, who have never had a thought in their heads that did not come from something else they saw on… — Pete Dexter Copy Share Image
“I had noticed, even then, that there were certain women whom other women instinctively disliked, and that these women invariably had more bait in… — Pete Dexter Copy Share Image
“...without moving a muscle in his face, slips away; retreats, I think, to that sheltered place where his stories are kept. Perhaps we all… — Pete Dexter Copy Share Image
And while good books - even so-so books - serve both functions, if you ever have to choose one over the other, keep in… — Pete Dexter Copy Share Image
“Spooner noticed another, smaller Marine Corps tattoo encircling Marlin's ankle: Semper Fi Forever. Everywhere he went these days, Spponer witnessed America's crying need for… — Pete Dexter Copy Share Image
“A newspaper story, like anything else, is more attractive from a distance, when it first comes to you, than it is when you get… — Pete Dexter Copy Share Image
