“Well, sugar," she said, limping off, "don't be too hard on yourself. Now and again it's okay to let yourself off the hook." But that was the trouble, wasn't it? Letting himself off the hook had been his way of… — Tom Franklin Copy Share Image
“He buys Playboy magazines and looks through them once, then gives them to me. That’s what it’s like to be rich. Here’s what it’s… — Tom Franklin Copy Share Image
“He found the first skipped meals were the hardest, the hunger a hollow ache. The longer he went without eating, though, the second day, the third, the pain would subside from an ache to the memory of an ache and finally to only the memory of a memory. Until you ate you didn't know how hungry you were, how empty… — Tom Franklin Copy Share
“The visit hadn't lasted much longer, and Wallace never said what he'd done, but after Larry watched him go, he'd spent the rest of… — Tom Franklin Copy Share Image
“Maybe she'd needed her dream to come true to realize it was the wrong dream.” — Tom Franklin Copy Share Image
“At some point, Alice slipped one arm and then the other into the coat's sleeves, she buttoned its buttons, starting at the top. Silas… — Tom Franklin Copy Share Image
“Dawn crept up out of the trees, defining a bole, a burl, a leaf at a time the world he'd spent the night trying… — Tom Franklin Copy Share Image
“The seat belt irked his father more than Uncle Colin's not eating meat, because, though his father never said it, Larry knew he considered… — Tom Franklin Copy Share Image
“Was that what childhood was? Things rushing by out a window, the trees connected by motion, going too fast for him to notice the… — Tom Franklin Copy Share Image
“Ham had a way of encouraging intimacy, of making you feel you'd known him for years, and only when you had known him for… — Tom Franklin Copy Share Image
