Reynolds Price
Stand up at sunrise and meet what they send you.
Strength just comes in one brand - you. Stand up at sunrise and meet what they send you and keep your hair combed.
Life is short and often stingy; feast the heart with what it craves, short of cruelty, and let the world wonder.
Many Americans would die naked in the middle of the road before they'd tell you what's hurt them most. But a born Southerner will show you the cell in their heart that burns the hardest. They'll hold it out to you in their bare right hand.
Almost all of my really good times have been silent but have had to end.
Every other way is like that -- him waiting for something to happen to him, daring somebody to do something nice such as come up and touch him just so he could say, 'Why in the world did you do that?' and hold on tight till whoever bothered him vanished -- and nothing about him since has ever surprised me.