Regan Sharp

“Look, I know from the outside it doesn't look so bad... I know I had all the advantages. I know my parents loved me. But that makes it worse, don't you see?... The way it is, all the unhappiness seems to be my responsibility, my fault.”
― Jane Tompkins, A Life In School: What The Teacher Learned

“The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“The bodies draped down through the leaves like rancid baubles in the locks of a horrible harlot.”
― Daniel Woodrell, Woe to Live On

“Ransie was a narrow six feet of sallow brown skin and yellow hair. The imperturbability of the mountains hung upon him like a suit of armor. The woman was calicoed, angled, snuff-brushed, and weary with unknown desires. Through it all gleamed a faint protest of cheated youth unconscious of its loss.”
― O. Henry, The Pocket Book of O. Henry Stories