“Jim he couldn't see no sense in the most of it, but he allowed we was white folks and knowed better than him;”
“Like most of the connections that explain the pain in our hearts, he couldn't bring it to mind. He couldn't see the truth because it was too big and it was right in front of him.”
“His death didn't concern him. It was Sunshine he couldn't allow to die.”
“It made me feel good to know that I could see him and he couldn't see me, and that I was aware and fully conscious and he wasn't”
“There is a much that a man should not see, should not know, and if he should see it, it is better for him to die.”
“There is nothing more alarming to a boy than seeing a mother, or a father, buckling. It says to him that all will not be well. The boy does not know this, but he senses it, as a dog senses it, as a dog sense his master's true state of mind. (Lorenzo Dee)”