Gretchen Roach

“People here liked to say they rooted for the underdog, but some of them got real quiet when the underdog was different from them.”
― J. Ryan Stradal, Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club

“Nothing passes in a small town.”
― Allie Ray, Inheritance

“Doesn't every town in America have an old-timer called The Professor? That duffer who knows everything and everybody, as long as they are dead.”
― Luis Alberto Urrea, The Water Museum

“I drank the rest of the sours and had dark sticky dreams. My mother had cut me open and was unpacking my organs, stacking them in a row on my bed as my flesh flapped to either side.”
― Gillian Flynn