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“The men came to mind as mostly idle between nights of running wild or time in the pen, cooking moon and gathering around the…

— Daniel Woodrell

It's not always to the benefit of the story to have it so preordained.

— Daniel Woodrell

“of the ready green on a blue felt top. The gentlemen who had assembled around it for an evening of high-stakes Hold ’Em were…

— Daniel Woodrell

“Well, we got to do the right thing by this boy,” Sundown said. “The right thing.” Duncan’s neck relaxed and his head flopped back…

— Daniel Woodrell

“On his next return to this world, Duncan Cobb, oldest son, faithless cousin, cautious lover, and pal of killers, awoke infused with the lucidity…

— Daniel Woodrell

“..boys by civil calculations, we had by now roughed up the swami and slept where the elephant shits, Shocking us would have required some…

— Daniel Woodrell

I was not much used to women except for mothers. Everything I did, they did different.

— Daniel Woodrell

“Her right hand held a bottle of Pepsi that she'd clogged with peanuts and called a late lunch.”

— Daniel Woodrell

Gail had a baby named Ned who was four months old, and a new look of baffled hurt, a left-behind sadness, like she saw…

— Daniel Woodrell

“I FELL DEEP down in there, until this bright light raised me from sleep. Coming out of a pit such as that, you think…

— Daniel Woodrell

“Mike Rondeau, a tall drink of a man sloshed into a squat glass, with a belt that could double as a lasso and a…

— Daniel Woodrell

“...the great name of the Dollys was Milton, and ...if you named a son Milton it was a decision that attempted to chart the…

— Daniel Woodrell