Hail to thee, Alabama, thou verdant trollop!

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

“I wanted her note to say that I was a red hole dug out of the guts of her, a se…”

“Saying it it loud, she felt every inch of distance between them.”

“I had been born and mostly raised in the South, so I ought to have been able to…”