Emilee Cunningham

“He knew that he did not play music so much as walk into it, as if into a palace of great riches, with rooms opening into other rooms, which opened into still other rooms, and in these rooms were courtyards and fountains with passageways to yet more mysterious spaces of melody, peculiar intervals, unheard notes.”
― Paulette Jiles, Simon the Fiddler

“Never go
even a single step
without a weapon at your side;
you never know
when you might find yourself
in need of a spear”
― Jackson Crawford

“There was too much talk and most of it unnecessary and most of it lying. Alone on the desert he felt he could reach to something, something he could never get to anywhere else, something that belonged to the beginning and made everything else that happened in between of no importance.”
― Elliott Arnold, Blood Brother

“You know this town. It's not different from other towns. The newspaper doesn't speak for them. Not everybody here is a damned fool. And, as usual, the less a fool a man is the quieter he keeps.”
― Elliott Arnold, Blood Brother