T.R. Pearson > Quotes

“According to Daddy, that was a time of general lunacy in Neely, but then Daddy has always said there's nothing like a good snowfall to bring out the feeble-mindedness in people. ”
― T.R. Pearson, A Short History of a Small Place

“They were the Epperson sisters, and they had distinguished themselves in the minds of the Neelyites by going from reasonably normal to unquestionably insane without ever pausing at peculiar.”
― T. R. Pearson

“It's a chore for a fellow to fear for his life more than once in an evening.”
― T.R. Pearson, Blue Ridge

“Momma crossed her arms over her apron bib and worked the small of her back against the edge of the doorframe. Daddy drew a Tareyton out of the pack in his shirtpocket and looked straight at me and talked straight at Momma and said, “Madness.”
― T.R. Pearson, A Short History of a Small Place

“The husk of a man in the woods below me bled into a creek that fed into a river that sparkled gaily in the winter sun.”
― T.R. Pearson, Blue Ridge

“We could easily have been abject strangers with no history of brief unsatisfying cinematic sex between us.”
― T.R. Pearson, Blue Ridge

“He was accustomed to paying measurable heed only to those details that bore upon him most directly.”
― T.R. Pearson, Blue Ridge

“The southbound motorists crawled past, eyeing the conflagration and the quartet of cops who had arrived to eye it as well.”
― T.R. Pearson, Blue Ridge

“a helplessly devoted student of human frailty”
― T.R. Pearson, Blue Ridge

“the boiling human chaos of metropolitan New York”
― T.R. Pearson, Blue Ridge

“The man dabbed briefly at his lip with his bloody sleeve end and then cocked back his head and laughed. The sound was sharp and joyless and desperate.”
― T.R. Pearson, Blue Ridge

“From her first day with us, Kandy took lunch at the counter in Cuddy’s.  They claim to serve “homestyle!” food there and, if you grew up in a cold war bunker, it might come pretty close because at Cuddy’s they open an awful lot of cans.”
― T.R. Pearson, Eaglesworth

“Alabastards like a contest.   Jack Russells only like a fight.”
― T.R. Pearson, Low Lords

“Worse still, Wally has hillbilly ADD.  He’ll start telling you about a snake he killed or some chesty woman he saw and then branch off into weather because a cloud caught his eye or complain about his itchy socks, wish he’d eaten more for lunch.”
― T.R. Pearson, East Jesus South

“It was one of those temporary situations with a whiff of forever about it.”
― T.R. Pearson, Sleepaway

“Our grown-up was dinged and damaged.  One of us was only thirteen and knew far less than he thought he did, and the eleven-year-old among us had to work to keep from whining. I wanted my mother in a powerful way, which I made a brave attempt to hide.”
― T.R. Pearson, Sleepaway

“We had family dinner back in Brooklyn, up in our apartment.  Just eggs and gloom.”
― T.R. Pearson, Low Lords

“I’m not built the way most people are and require more in this life to be laid plain before me than is common.”
― T.R. Pearson, Devil Up