“Later, while she was sleeping, she woke to the sound of Ray moving through the house. At first she confused. She thought she was still married to Bill. Then, when she had everythbing straight in her head, shame washed over… — 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
