14 Quotes by Toni Orrill

Satchie: Excuse me, I'm an enlisted man too. Nothing more was said. In the dark wooden room, Kenny and Satchie had the seethe of men with hardened hearts seered by the stench of burned human flesh. No smell like it, Satchie remembered. Gut-curling, episodic explosion of the soul that blasted even the bearest of men. So they hung in joints under Jax signs and Dixie beer relics where they drank their poison and enjoyed false remedy.

I write. This is what I do and you will never understand it. I'm writing a book. What are ya'll doing?

Why, she's as mild as a flower! She ain't hurt nobody! Now git in the kitchen and git some chicory!

This story (novel-in-progress) tells of suffering. Many scripts ignore pain, but suffering is part of the human condition. Christ suffered, yet there is joy in His redemptive work. #salvation

Always leave behind a garden.

In my aloneness, I find God. He is there always, but the noise drowned Him out.

And when the clouds come, I sink; and when the skies dawn, I rise.

Patient: Where is Carey Street? Miss Ida: "Go stand out in the street and you'll find it.

I have learn'd Poppy that people come an' go. Only Jesus is your true friend. And even He had Judas. Git rid of your Judas. Like your sister. Marc has lost his mind. Buying one gift for her an' anoth'r for Cherie. That boy bet'r git himself home. There's ain't no blessing in sin, I tell ya. The devil roams, he prowls Poppy and a man's heart is fertile territory.