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Michael McDowell can create characters and some entertaining family dynamics. Blackwater is part southern gothic soap opera and part horror, and McDowell blends the two perfectly. This book is epic in scope and covers generations of the Caskey family
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She had been told her words counted for nothing. Now she wore her husband’s tongue as a reminder never to be silenced again.
“I'm sitting here thankful that I met her, but I know that today she'll leave and I'll be here and that'll be it. But just like with Dad, I try and focus on the good memories and keep the gratitude rather than mourn the loss.”
― Of Foster Homes and Flies
― Of Foster Homes and Flies
“Being a billionaire is not a success, it's a massive moral failure.”
― Ghost Recall
― Ghost Recall
“She was maybe fifty, mouse-brown hair, pretty once was my first thought, then I realized she was still pretty. I had just seen such ugly things that this cold loft with its naked brick and bare lightbulbs and a mattress on the floor with a pile of books for a nightstand was beautiful, and she was beautiful for making it that way and keeping it as nice as she could and for not having the heart to throw away the Gerber daisy wilting, already dropping petals from its place in the Coke bottle on the counter by the stove. And she was beautiful for wearing a raincoat with a sweater under it because that was all she had.”
― The Lesser Dead
― The Lesser Dead
“I ask you, doctor, what is there in the world more selfish than a baby? Nothing!
-The Small Assassin”
― The October Country
-The Small Assassin”
― The October Country
“When you're a kid, facts don't matter. It's how hard you believe. How much you wish.”
― Mongrels
― Mongrels
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