“This was the image Angeline had of him at the time; always moving to the edges of some sort of celebration.” — Amanda Coplin Southern-literature Copy Share Image
“Riding in the herd, the sound like one constant, endless sigh; some frantic and others calm, some remembering some wrong done to… — Amanda Coplin Copy Share Image
“...She was becoming what she was destined to become...: her own person, her own independent and particular self.” — Amanda Coplin Copy Share Image
“And how does one so small and perfect in her way become an adult? The change would never occur if he kept… — Amanda Coplin Change Copy Share Image
“The man said that a portion of track just up into the mountain pass had been damaged by a rockslide early that… — Amanda Coplin Bad news Copy Share Image
“A place to show her children: and you belong to the earth, and the earth is hard.” — Amanda Coplin Children Copy Share Image
The night has made up its mind. It’s we who are too slow, who move in the wake of events already decided… — Amanda Coplin Decided Copy Share Image
“She could strive for perfection only in certain, few things; beyond that, it was important only to be tidy.” — Amanda Coplin Perfection Copy Share Image
“She revered solitude, but only because there was the possibility of breaking it. Of communing at last with another.” — Amanda Coplin Loneliness Copy Share Image
“It was only too bad that to gossip and support mean ideas was easier and more enjoyable, really, than to keep quiet… — Amanda Coplin Gossip Copy Share Image
“And that was the point of children, thought Caroline Meddey: to bind us to the earth and to the present, to distract… — Amanda Coplin Children Copy Share Image
“Up the Columbia, the water splashing steadily against the hull; past Orondo and Entiat, the orchards along the benches materializing in the… — Amanda Coplin Copy Share Image
“They had heard that many, many miles away, but not so many as before they started, on the other side of the… — Amanda Coplin Parenting Copy Share Image
“Not only a few times, but every time he did not give in to his urge to go look for her, he… — Amanda Coplin Life Copy Share Image
“When he was a boy he was happy when the men arrived, and in a way wanted them to remain forever--but he… — Amanda Coplin Grief Copy Share Image
“He realized without being aware of it that he had had the possibility to know her, before – had he known her?… — Amanda Coplin Determination Copy Share Image
“He had pulled out of that grief, eventually – out from under the suffocating weight of it. Suffering had formed him: made… — Amanda Coplin Grief Copy Share Image
“And that was the point of children, thought Caroline Middey: to bind us to the earth and to the present, to distract… — Amanda Coplin Children Copy Share Image
“And the wind was alive the day they put Jane into the ground; it played over the plateau and made the sound… — Amanda Coplin Sound of rain Copy Share Image
“They were blessed, said Jane; they were going to give birth to themselves. It would be themselves they gave birth to, only… — Amanda Coplin Birth Copy Share Image
“He was to speak of her less often in the years to come... It made Angeline more resentful of the one who… — Amanda Coplin Copy Share Image
He regarded the world-objects right in front of his face-as if from a great distance. For when he moved on the earth… — Amanda Coplin Bird Copy Share Image
