Kelly Ewing

“Come sit in the living room", she said. "I'm afraid it's a mess. I can't seem to find the time or energy to clean it up. It's very embarrassing when parishioners stop by.”
― Maryellen Winkler, The Disappearance of Darcie Malone

“Maybe you could just tell us what you did," I suggested. "Where you went, what you saw, and not mention if Doug was there or not. Just keep it in the first person singular.”
― Maryellen Winkler, The Disappearance of Darcie Malone

“Ask her what she craved, and she'd get a little frantic about things like books, the woods, music. Plants and the seasons. Also freedom. Not being bought and sold by some idiot employer, not having the moments of her days valued in fractions of a dollar by somebody other than herself.”
― Charles Frazier, Nightwoods

“You know you've always been a bit of a stinker, my little freethinker.”
― Erin Mallon