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“The sky had cleared, and now the sun was overhead, already baking the wet ground so that you could see the humidity drifting lazily above the cotton stalks.”

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Book:A Painted House

Source: A Painted House

“But the book! The siren song of the book!”

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Book:Witnessing

Source: Witnessing

“Then the light changed the water, until all about them the woods in the rising wind seemed to grow taller and blow inward together and suddenly turn dark. The rain struck heavily. A huge tail seemed to lash through the air and the river broke in a wound of silver.”

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Book:The Collected Stories

Source: The Collected Stories

“That's just it, Eva said with a gleam in her eyes that matched the rhinestones on her glasses, you had to get somebody to teach you, to facilitate. Literacy wasn't like a piece of my mama's lemon cake you handed over to somebody on a plate.”

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Book:The Queen of Palmyra

Source: The Queen of Palmyra

“Later they took him to Jackson and that explained it; he was crazy.”

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Book:Follow Me Down

Source: Follow Me Down