In the stories of this collection, emotionally damaged characters cope with impossible odds by enduring and staying: "Things can be fixed by staying; but to go out into the night and not come back hazards life, and everything can get out of hand."
Thanks, Dale Wisely, for giving me this book.
Quotes:
This is not a happy story. I warn you.
Things can be fixed by staying; but to go out into the night and not come back hazards life, and everything can get out of hand.
This was not going to be a good day in Bobby’s life, that was clear, because he was headed to jail.
And I thought Claude was a fool then, and this was how you knew what a fool was— someone who didn’t know what mattered to him in the long run.
But when you are older, nothing you did when you were young matters at all. I know that now, though I didn’t know it then. We were simply young.
The woman smelled like marijuana. It was a smell he liked, but it made him nervous. He wondered what the Army people would think. Being in the Army was a business now. Businessmen didn’t smoke dope.
Things you do pass away and are gone, and you need only to outlive them for your life to be better, steadily better.
Trouble comes cheap and leaves expensive,
Each of us had done something that night. Something different. That was plain enough. And there was nothing more to talk about.
Or maybe she thought this: that people can do the worst things they are capable of doing and in the end the world comes back to normal.
I began to date my real life from that moment and that thought. It is this: that situations have possibilities in them, and we have only to be present to be involved. Tonight was a very bad one. But how were we to know it would turn out this way until it was too late and we had all been changed forever?
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