Sam Reaves > Quotes

“The reader is the final arbiter.”
― Sam Reaves

“They traded one of those looks only two people who have grown up together can trade, long and candid, and Rachel found herself hurting for him.”
― Sam Reaves, Cold Black Earth

“everybody was afraid and that the trick was to learn to function with fear.”
― Sam Reaves, Cold Black Earth

“field full of corn stubble”
― Sam Reaves, Cold Black Earth

“tell”
― Sam Reaves, Cold Black Earth

“don’t”
― Sam Reaves, Cold Black Earth

“you, Aunt Helga? Are you in hell?” Helga appeared to consider the question seriously, but when her answer came it was with a dismissive gesture. “Oh, no, honey. I’m all right. I’d rather still be at home, but then I’d be completely dependent on people who have their own lives to lead, and that’s not very agreeable, either. I don’t like it, but I can’t say I don’t belong here. It’s just another thing to make the best of.”
― Sam Reaves, Cold Black Earth

“The hallways were starkly illuminated by fluorescent tubes and populated by shambling disheveled ancients supporting themselves on walkers, harried by attendants dressed like hospital personnel but with the dead-eyed stares of prison warders.”
― Sam Reaves, Cold Black Earth

“Rachel pulled frozen dinners out of the bags, looking for food.”
― Sam Reaves, Cold Black Earth

“souvenir tablecloths bearing images of the Acropolis,”
― Sam Reaves, Homicide 69

“out in when they were married. Matt thinks that made the”
― Sam Reaves, Cold Black Earth

“There’s nothing wrong with your judgment. Sometimes people let you down, that’s all. And it sucks, big time. But there’s a lot of other people out there. You put it behind you and go find somebody else.”
― Sam Reaves, Cold Black Earth

“neglected and betrayed you, but the animal inside you needed the animal inside them. If only, Rachel thought, you could be content with the animal part. Sometimes it was a burden to be human.”
― Sam Reaves, Cold Black Earth

“he was one of those men whose views were as unshakable as they were unreflective.”
― Sam Reaves, Cold Black Earth

“Here were Winnie the Pooh, The Wind in the Willows, A Wrinkle in Time, The Outsiders, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Gone with the Wind, Wuthering Heights. And over here Anne of Green Gables, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Pride and Prejudice, Island of the Blue Dolphins.”
― Sam Reaves, Cold Black Earth