Hail to thee, Alabama, thou verdant trollop!

“I'd thought Clarice's smile was both too dim and friendly and too wide and whit…”

“It's a thing I am, not a thing I do. I can't stop being it.”

“God gave us crying so other folks could see when we needed help, and help us.”

“That was normal. That was regular and real.. It didn't look like a place [she] …”