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“Lately, I been keeping all my sadness locked in a pantry somewhere inside. My grief and my self-hatred placed on shelves like canned tomatoes.”
― House of Cotton
― House of Cotton
“You think the dead don't recognize dead when they see it?”
― House of Cotton
― House of Cotton
“Wetting the earth with tears ain't never made anybody sprout.”
― House of Cotton
― House of Cotton
“To House Mountain, whose location I change at each story’s insistence, for looming over my life and hosting so much strange beauty”
― House of Cotton
― House of Cotton
“[Your little friends] aren't even interesting. If anything, they're perfumed and loquacious.”
― House of Cotton
― House of Cotton
“if brains were leather, you wouldn’t have enough to saddle a June bug.”
― House of Cotton
― House of Cotton


