Anna Buckley

“I could not even ask myself how in the fuzzy hell I got here, because I knew precisely how it happened, year by year.”
― Rick Bragg, All Over But the Shoutin'

“Finally, I must thank the boy, for forgiving me for all that I have fumbled, broken and lost, and the simple fact that, sometimes, I just don't have good sense.”
― Rick Bragg, The Prince of Frogtown

“I felt lonely then. This is the time when you need somebody. This is the time when it is good to have a wife, and children, to absorb your grief, to hold on to you. This is when you pay, and pay and pay, for pretending that you don't need anybody.”
― Rick Bragg, All Over But the Shoutin'

“To be a Southerner, or to live Southern, is to feel, well, something special even in the quiet, something fine in itself after all those rebel yells and fight songs have finally faded into silence.”
― Rick Bragg, My Southern Journey: True Stories from the Heart of the South