Dan Franklin > Quotes

“Like most people who grew up poor, I’d adopted the automatic habit of appraisal when in new places. Unlike most, however, I never really understood the envy.”
― Dan Franklin, These Things Linger

“grew up in rural Maryland, a little town called Fair Hill up in Cecil County, and I learned to fish early, in the lake behind our trailer. I was a gawky nine years old and could barely hold the rod and reel without my arm shaking.”
― Dan Franklin, These Things Linger

“If you’re hungry enough, scraps are feasts.”
― Dan Franklin, These Things Linger

“Not everything is someone’s fault. She helped because she wanted to. Some things, they’re just awful mistakes. Terrible things happen.”
― Dan Franklin, These Things Linger

“Being poor isn’t easy anywhere, but being poor in a city is a battle. Small town poverty is simply surrender.”
― Dan Franklin, These Things Linger

“Some things linger. They turn. Like unshot bullets in that old revolving cylinder, they can only be forgotten for a little while. Some things? They come back.”
― Dan Franklin, These Things Linger

“On warmer days Raychel and I would walk out to the bank and stand on the sandy shore and watch the gulls wheel high above the gently rolling current, hunting for stray dead things that the water gave back to the land.”
― Dan Franklin, These Things Linger