8 Quotes by Dale Maharidge

I still love Ken, ... He really means well. He put all his shots in the golf course project. It kind of blinded him.

That was an act I saw beyond anything that would happen in California, ... A white guy with everything at stake. That was an act of hope. It blew me away.

These exposed streets were the same everywhere, and the writer saw no truth in them. They were simply more visible in a small town.

it's neutral in people's mind. Every person I've ever met from Iowa had this neutral attitude toward it.

In a small town, there is a thin veil of anonymity,

What I would say to people right now is that you can’t count on anything that you don’t do yourself,” Jim said. “If your hand don’t put it there, and you don’t provide for your own family yourself, by your own intelligence and by your own means, you can’t count on anybody else to do it for you.

There was, however, a fundamental difference – namely, that Maggie Louise, at least at that point in her life, had the ability to be satisfied, which, while different from being happy, is essential in finding contentment. In this regard, there may be two kinds of people, or perhaps, more accurately, two extremes, and if so, Agee and Maggie Louise represented them.

Maggie Louise sat in a hardback chair, holding her baby brother, Squinchy, and her eyes fell upon Agee. There was something about the eyes of Maggie Louise that caught him the first time they met. They were ‘temperature less, keen, serene, and wise and pure gray eyes,’ Agee said, and they seemed to look everywhere and see into things. To look into the eyes of Maggie Louise was ‘scary as hell, and even more mysterious than frightening,’ said Agee. She knew she’d like him and he her.