Let me tell you something, my wife died for Tuesdays ago. Cancer of the colon. We were married forty-one years. Now you stop feeling sorry for yourself and lose some of that pork of yours....

Jeb’d said it was harder for a pretty girl to find work; even white men liked flowers, whether red or pink or blue.

Esther n’était certainement pas bien éduquée au sens habituel du terme, jamais l’idée ne lui serait venue de vider un cendrier ou de débarrasser le relief de ses repas, et c’est sans la moindre gêne...