Isadora

“On hearing this remark, my heart jumped clear up in my throat.. I thought surely it was going to hop right out on the depot platform. I looked up and tried to tell him who I was, but something went wrong. When the words finally came out they sounded like the squeaky old pulley on our well when Mama drew up a bucket of water.”
― Wilson Rawls, Where the Red Fern Grows

“If they weren't staring at a fellow, they were laughing at him.”
― Wilson Rawls