Quote by Michael McDowell

“Look down fair moon and bathe this scene, Pour softly down night’s nimbus floods on faces ghastly, swollen, purple, On the dead on their…

— Michael McDowell

“It’s bad when the dead talk in dreams,” said Odessa.”

— Michael McDowell

“She had got beyond despair.”

— Michael McDowell

“Merle Weaver stroked the little girl's hair and thought of the two corpses in the rear of the truck.”

— Michael McDowell

“I sort of wish that was what happened though, Ginny, because that would mean the girl is all right. Fourteen-year-old girls have run off…

— Michael McDowell

“To the little girl the house seemed a gigantic head, and she only a morsel of meat conveniently positioned in its gaping mouth. The…

— Michael McDowell

“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 the precincts…

— Michael McDowell

“That was the great misconception about men: because they dealt with money, because they could hire someone on and later fire him, because they…

— Michael McDowell

“Mary-Love liked to see herself as the family cornucopia, dispensing all manner of good things, unstintingly, unceasingly. She considered herself amply rewarded by her…

— Michael McDowell

“Southerners are an easygoing race when it comes to aberrations of conduct. They will react with anger if something out of the ordinary is…

— Michael McDowell

“They placed the board between them on the kitchen table, and Becca took the suddenly inspired precaution of sprinkling the planchette with holy water…

— Michael McDowell

“Grace began to understand. "I have friends," she protested. "I have Zaddie." "Zaddie is just a little colored girl," Mary-Love pointed out. "It's all…

— Michael McDowell