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“August in Mississippi is different from July. As to heat, it is not a question of degree but of kind. July heat is furious, but in August the heat has killed even itself and lies dead over us.”

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Book:Fire in the Morning

Source: Fire in the Morning

“He read it over twenty times and though the darkness that sang on held steady about him, the unhurried words fell bright through his mind, going down golden through deep water, and when one passed another came, ceaselessly, shining.”

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Book:This Crooked Way

Source: This Crooked Way

“People hear whispers as loud as guns.”

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Book:The Voice at the Back Door

Source: The Voice at the Back Door

“To each other, they talked at a gallop. Literature turned them on; their ideas flowed, ran back and forth like a current. (The Cousins)”

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Book:The Southern Woman: New and Selected Fiction

Source: The Southern Woman: New and Selected Fiction

“His house to me was a child was a heart of happiness. If there is a wonder childhood possesses which makes it forever superior to what shall come after, it is the happy and uncritical love of whatever is happy, place or person, it does not matter which.”

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Book:This Crooked Way

Source: This Crooked Way

“It never registered to them that I had time to read all of Balzac, Dickens, and Stendhal while Papa was dying, not to mention everything in the city library after Mother's operation. It would have been exactly the same to them if I had read through all twenty-six volumes of Elsie Dinsmore. (The White Azalea)”

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Book:The Southern Woman: New and Selected Fiction

Source: The Southern Woman: New and Selected Fiction

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