“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… — Tom Franklin Good news 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… — Tom Franklin Food Copy Share Image
“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… — Tom Franklin Copy Share Image
“Maybe she'd needed her dream to come true to realize it was the wrong dream.” — Tom Franklin Dream 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… — Tom Franklin Failure 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… — Tom Franklin Darkness 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… — Tom Franklin Eating meat Copy Share Image
“... daylight crept through the trees like an army of crafty boys.” — Tom Franklin Foreboding 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… — Tom Franklin Childhood 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… — Tom Franklin Copy Share Image
“He wished he understood better how the pieces of his life fit together. Would another man with these same pieces see the… — Tom Franklin Another man Copy Share Image
“They'd already shouted to each other the facts, but they hadn't had time to press the hurt spots.” — Tom Franklin Time Copy Share Image
In the divorce my ex got everything. Even kept her composure — Tom Franklin Composure Copy Share Image
...in the woods, if you stopped, if you grew still, you'd hear a whole new set of sounds, wind rasping through silhouetted… — Tom Franklin Armadillos Copy Share Image
“Maybe Larry was wrong about the word friend, maybe he'd been shoved away from everybody for so long all he was was… — Tom Franklin Friendship Copy Share Image
“ It wasn't Glen's jealousy that surprised him. "You owe Roy money?" "Yep. Borrowed it to get my truck painted." "Roy's a… — Tom Franklin Redneck humor Copy Share Image
“Soon the Mississippi night hummed by outside his windows, bug, bird, frog, the wind on his face.” — Tom Franklin Copy Share Image
“Their lives had stopped, frozen, as if in a picture, and the days were nothing more than empty squares on a calendar.” — Tom Franklin Copy Share Image
“Dixie Clay knew now that the world was full of secret sorrowing women, each with her own doors closed to rooms she… — Tom Franklin Copy Share Image
“Well, sugar," she said, limping off, "don't be too hard on yourself. Now and again it's okay to let yourself off the… — Tom Franklin Life Copy Share Image
