“Small towns are like metronomes; with the slightest flick, the beat changes.”
“The white noise in his heart, the sum of all his colors —the metronome to which he beat [was she].”
“I like to play chess. I moved to a small town, and nobody played chess there, but one guy challenged me to checkers. I always thought it was kind of a simple game, but I accepted. And he beat me nine or ten games in a row. That’s sort of like living in a small town. It’s a simpler game, but it’s played to a higher level.”
“I want to be the mayor of a small town. A small town I populated entirely with my seed.”
“As it was a small town and a bored town and a hopeful town, kids talked and rumors started.”
“There is a certain kind of small town that grows like a boil on the ass of every Army base in the world.”