“Often, the human animal dresses terror in rage, and expresses both in a way unlike either.”

“...part of the mind's job was to cast doubt on what the heart knew to be true, and the heart, because it had no words, often lost the argument”

“Dying ain't important. Everyone does that. What's important is how well you do your living.”

“It ain't how long you know somebody that means anything. It's what that person mean to you in your heart.”

“He took the box but did not avail himself of a tissue. She understood. Sometimes it was comforting to feel the wetness of grief's tears on your face.”

“Just because you're bron to someone, it doesn't mean you belong to them.”

“Stagolee was, undoubtedly and without question, the baddest nigger that ever lived. Stagolee was so bad that the flies wouldn't even fly around his head in the summertime, and snow wouldn't fall on his house in the winter. He was bad, jim. ”