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“All deaths are sudden, no matter how gradual the dying may be.”

Death Death And Dying Death Of A Loved One

Book:Blackwater: The Complete Caskey Family Saga

Source: Blackwater: The Complete Caskey Family Saga

“Someone once asked me what I thought horror fiction did. What its purpose was . . . I replied that when I wrote horror fiction, I tried to take the improbable, the unimaginable, and the impossible, and make it seem not only possible--but inevitable.”

Author:Michael McDowell

“That her niece should find such profound pleasure in the company of a thirteen-year-old black girl--and, more to the point, always within the precincts of Elinor's house--was a slap in Mary-Love's face. She decided, without saying anything more to James, to wreck Grace's perfection of happiness. Grace would learn that she, Mary-Love, was the source of all felicity within the Caskey family.”

Horror Mothers In Law Rivermonsters

Book:The Levee

Source: The Levee

“Grace began to understand. "I have friends," she protested. "I have Zaddie." "Zaddie is just a little colored girl," Mary-Love pointed out. "It's all right to play with Zaddie, but she's not your real friend. John Robert can be your real little friend.”

Mothers In Law Mary Love

Book:The Levee

Source: The Levee

“No mother and daughter in Perdido were closer than Mary Love Caskey and Sister. But it was not to be supposed that either told the other everything she thought or knew. In fact, each of them liked to keep little secrets from the other. Secrets which could be sprung at some opportune moment to produce a grand effect, rather in the manner of a little boy tossing lighted firecrackers beneath his sister's bed while she napped on a hot summer afternoon.”

Southern Families

Book:Blackwater, Vol. 1: The Flood / The Levee / The House

Source: Blackwater, Vol. 1: The Flood / The Levee / The House

“Mary-Love liked to see herself as the family cornucopia, dispensing all manner of good things, unstintingly, unceasingly. She considered herself amply rewarded by her children's gratitude, and if she perceived that her children were not sufficiently grateful, she could make something of that, too.”

Horror Rivermonsters

Book:The Levee

Source: The Levee

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