Terry Kay > Quotes

“It is very painful to love someone and believe you cannot be with them.”
― Terry Kay, Shadow Song

“Friendship among men is always part war, something learned from childhood.”
― Terry Kay

“Always there was a moment—a quick slip of time—when the sun broke free of the trees and bled from its yolk, spilling in red-orange rivers over the silk.”
― Terry Kay, To Dance with the White Dog

“Where did Cain’s wife come from, if Adam and Eve were the first people on earth? Did God make some more people, somewhere else, and they got left out of the Bible?”
― Terry Kay, To Dance with the White Dog

“Always there was a moment—a quick slip of time—when the sun broke free of the trees and bled from”
― Terry Kay, To Dance with the White Dog

“I seen ghost dogs,” she asserted. “Them dogs don’t bark. Don’t never know where they be hiding. You be looking at a ghost dog and you blink your eyes and they gone. Ghost dogs always coming around when somebody passes on. Babies, your daddy’s gone changed on account of that ghost dog. Where that dog now? That dog ain’t nowhere around. That dog with your daddy. That dog done took Mr. Sam off somewheres.”
― Terry Kay, To Dance with the White Dog