“A volley of hailstones began abruptly, filled the woods with a frenzied percussion & ended on the sudden.”
“They listened with flattering attention. He was filled with enthusiasm. He began at the beginning and tried to tell it as he thought Penny would do. Half-way through, he looked down at the cake. He lost interest in the account."Then Pa shot him," he ended abruptly.”
“A swelled head is just a result of nature's frenzied efforts to fill a vacuum.”
“What would it be like to be a turtle inside a shell hit by hailstones?”
“Here began countless days of hunting and snaring, fishing and gathering, roaming together through the woods, unloading our thoughts while we filled our game bags. This was the doorway to both sustenance and sanity. And we were each other's key.”
“It would then be brought abruptly to an end, for the brightness had shown suffering the way.”