Deborah

“Shut up or I'll turn this car around”
― Mom

“Why the long face? Something happen?"
"Nothing except my grandmother is still dead and my aunt moved to Sacramento and my sister just got out of a mental hospital."
"Oh," Huey says.
I spread my sack out, ready to load. Huey folds his handkerchief in half then in half again. I need him to check my count before I can go.
"Which part of Sacramento," he says, and I shrug.”
― Bob Thurber, Paperboy: A Dysfunctional Novel

“People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.”
― Logan Pearsall Smith

“A new day always forgives you, unless it's raining and you wake up in jail.”
― Bob Thurber, Paperboy: A Dysfunctional Novel