Lewis Nordan Quotes

#1. The Mississippi Delta is not always dark with rain. Some autumn mornings, the sun rises over Moon Lake, or Eagle, or Choctaw, or Blue, or Roebuck, all the wide, deep waters of the state, and when it does, its dawn is as rosy with promise and hope as any other.

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#2. A thousand times, when the train slowed or stopped, I thought of jumping off. I wanted to die in a ditch. I wanted to disappear. I wanted a different history and geography. In rhythm with the wheels I said I want I want I want I want I stayed on the train.

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#3. There is great pain in all love, but we don't care, it's worth it.

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#4. Belief and disbelief were the same creature within me.

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#5. Uncle said, If love would save him, wouldn't no harm come to him.

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#6. Birds are waterproof.

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#7. Roy Dale suspected that Mississippi was beautiful. He wasn't sure. He didn't have anything to compare it to. He hadn't even ever been out of the Delta.

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#8. Self-blame is usually a way of avoiding something more hideous anyway, something you're willing to be punished for but unwilling to change, or even something terrible in the imperfect structure of the universe.

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#9. There were happy days, with watermelon, and sad days of whiskey.

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#10. Even Solon Gregg was finding it hard to speak to a woman who had just paid hard cash for tampons and on her face wore the look of a woman who meant to use them, as advertised.

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#11. When I was your age I knew how to listen to television and learn a few things.

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