Other Voices, Other Rooms Quotes

"That was pretty good, eh?" said Idabel. "I'll bet you thought the devil was hot on your trail."Florabel said: "Not the devil, sister…he's inside you." (1.1.138-39)

"Can't serve no beer to minors, babylove, even if you are a mighty cute-lookin fella. Now what you want is a nice NEHI grapepop," said the woman, lumbering away. (1.1.76)

However, reading in the Times-Picayune, to the Sunday issue of which we subscribe, of my late wife's passing, may God the Almighty rest her gentle soul, I at once reasoned the honorable thing could...

Now a traveler must make his way to Noon City by the best means he can, for there are no buses or trains heading in that direction, though six days a week a truck from the Chuberry Turpentine Compa...

But Joel didn't much like God, for He had betrayed him too many times. (1.2.79)

Wooden bridges spanning brackish creeks named for long-gone Indian tribes rumble like far-off thunder under a passing wheel [...] (1.1.2)

He had his notions of what a "real" boy should look like, and this kid somehow offended them. He was too pretty, too delicate and fair-skinned; each of his features was shaped with a sensitive accu...

"Round the world, eh?" said Radclif, impressed. "Musta been a mighty rich man." "Well, that was a long time ago." (1.1.18-19)