“Where did she come from, and where can I find one?""Picked this one up at a gas station in West Virginia, bargain price. Last one on the shelf, sorry.”

“I'm going to come back to West Virginia when this is over. There's something ancient and deeply-rooted in my soul. I like to think that I have left my ghost up one of those hollows, and I'll never really be able to leave for good until I find it. And I don't want to look for it, because I might find it and have to leave." - from a letter to his mother Helen Pancake that Breece wrote in Charlottesville, where he was studying writing.”

“Despite our differences, we did have a history. No one understood where I was coming from the way he did.”

“Look forward to the wonderment of growing up, raising a family and driving by the gas station where the popular kids now work.”

“One day my sister Virginia woke up feeling wolfish. She made wolf SOUNDS and did strange things...”

“You West Virginia girls are one tough breed," he said.You got that right," I told him.”