Blame Quote by Kaye Gibbons

“Fail in the streets and the crews would catch you slipping and take your body. Fail in the schools and you would be suspended…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“Behold yon rough and flinty road Where youth, now youth no more, Gropes whining, seeking crumbs of loaves He cast away of yore.”

— Emma Ghent Curtis

“He wasn't in a safe little story where wrongs were automatically righted; he was still in the real world, where bad bitter things happened…

— Lev Grossman

“He sat in the living room in the dark, an expert at waiting, a nineteen-year veteran of it, waiting for people who failed to…

— Elmore Leonard

“All backwoods folks were poor by material standards; they knew how to make do. They were not wanting to tame the wildness, in themselves…

— bell hooks

“who should turn up but that long-lost schmuck of a Billy, and what did Charis do but rent him the other half of her…

— Margaret Atwood

“Naturally society cherished itself alone; it prized what everyone agreed was precious, despised what everyone agreed was despicable, and ignored what no one mentioned-all…

— Annie Dillard

“He believed that kids who’d been slammed around needed to stick together, from start to finish. And he spotted others of his kind so…

— S.E. Jakes

“George, his only brother, had merely been fourteen, still in high school. Their Uncle Roger had taken George in. George had lived rent-free for…

— Diana Orgain

“Billy's native arrogance might well have been a gift of miffed genes, then come to splendid definition through the tests to which a street…

— William Kennedy

“A moment before I had been safe of all men's respect, wealthy, beloved - the cloth laying for me in the dining room at…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“I did feel a concentrated dislike for those boys, who couldn't submit to the odd faithless girlfriend, needling classmate, or dose of working-single-parent distraction--who…

— Lionel Shriver