“Look down fair moon and bathe this scene, Pour softly down night’s nimbus floods on faces ghastly, swollen, purple, On the dead… — Michael McDowell Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“Merle Weaver stroked the little girl's hair and thought of the two corpses in the rear of the truck.” — Michael McDowell Copy Share Image
“I sort of wish that was what happened though, Ginny, because that would mean the girl is all right. Fourteen-year-old girls have… — Michael McDowell Copy Share Image
“To the little girl the house seemed a gigantic head, and she only a morsel of meat conveniently positioned in its gaping… — Michael McDowell Little girl Copy Share Image
“That her niece should find such profound pleasure in the company of a thirteen-year-old black girl--and, more to the point, always within… — Michael McDowell Black girl Copy Share Image
“That was the great misconception about men: because they dealt with money, because they could hire someone on and later fire him,… — Michael McDowell Money Copy Share Image
“Mary-Love liked to see herself as the family cornucopia, dispensing all manner of good things, unstintingly, unceasingly. She considered herself amply rewarded… — Michael McDowell Children Copy Share Image
“Southerners are an easygoing race when it comes to aberrations of conduct. They will react with anger if something out of the… — Michael McDowell Southern-gothic Copy Share Image
“In the hour before a thunderstorm, the color of the forest deepens: the pine needles take on a dense vibrant greenness they… — Michael McDowell Copy Share Image
“They placed the board between them on the kitchen table, and Becca took the suddenly inspired precaution of sprinkling the planchette with… — Michael McDowell Holy water Copy Share Image
“Grace began to understand. "I have friends," she protested. "I have Zaddie." "Zaddie is just a little colored girl," Mary-Love pointed out.… — Michael McDowell Friendship Copy Share Image
“No mother and daughter in Perdido were closer than Mary Love Caskey and Sister. But it was not to be supposed that… — Michael McDowell Children Copy Share Image
“I am a commercial writer and I'm proud of that. I am writing things to be put in the bookstore next month.… — Michael McDowell Writing Copy Share Image
“I would be perfectly willing if a publisher came up to me and said, "I need a novel about underwater Nazi cheerleaders… — Michael McDowell Books Copy Share Image
“And among adults, adultery is an unmentionable thing, which only occurs in the Bible and in Mobile.” — Michael McDowell Bible Copy Share Image
“All deaths are sudden, no matter how gradual the dying may be.” — Michael McDowell Death Copy Share Image
