“You are pulling down heaven and raising up a whore”

“Until an hour before the Devil fell, God thought him beautiful in Heaven.”

“Chris: I don't know why it is, but every time I reach out for something I want, I have to pull back because other people will suffer.”

“After all the highways, and the trains, and the appointments, and the years, you end up worth more dead than alive.”

“Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you. And you know I can do it; I saw Indians smash my dear parents' heads on the pillow next to mine, and I have seen some reddish work done at night, and I can make you wish you had never seen the sun go down!- Abigail”

“Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.”

“Pray calm yourselves. I have eleven children, and I am twenty-six times a grandma, and I have seen them all through their silly seasons, and when it come on them they will run the Devil bowlegged keeping up with their mischief. I think she'll wake when she tires of it. A child's spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back.”