33 Quotes by K. Martin Beckner

Initially they waited with hope, but as each hour passed, hope slipped away like the wind, the wind that as a small boy Ethan had once tried to capture with his tiny fingers.

But forever was a useless term, relevant only for the dead.

Like a car that's old enough to be old but not old enough to be a classic, it would be years before people would again appreciate the old town square.

Anyway," continued Mr. Miller, "when I was a kid, people used to sit under the stars at night and look up into the sky and talk about things. They got to know each other. People Today is too busy staring at the television, what I call the idiot box, to talk about anything. That's why there are so many divorces these days. People don't talk

It's a wonder Hell don't open up and swallow her as the highlight of the service.

Some of the more superstitious townsfolk even believed she was a witch. The fact that she had four dead husbands lined up in a neat row at the local Promise Land Cemetery was not an argument in her defense.

Ain't no decent woman ever had that many husbands to die from natural causes.

I wanted to go in and tell them that, but George thought it would just be stirring up some trouble, you know, stirring up the cow pile. A cow pile may looked dried up, but if you stir it up, it can start to stink again.

I've tucked those negative thoughts in a drawer, and for the most part, though I know the drawer still exists, it never gets opened.