32 Quotes by William Gay

I just couldn't stand that goddamned yip yip yip.

There’s folks you just don’t need. You’re better off without em. Your life is just a little better because they ain’t in it.

don't start talkin about books or quotin poems at them. these is good folks but they ain't real crazy about readin books. just do what i do and you'll be all right.

Hovington cowered on the porch alternately praying and swearing in a desperate attempt to cover all the bases.

She was a page torn from a calendar, a year folded neatly and laid aside in some place you never look.

But blood is never left up to you, blood will call to blood. You can’t deny your own kin.

He was wishing the past was a place you could backtrack to, take a sideroad you’d walked hurriedly past, wake somebody from a bad dream he was having.

It was the first time they had ever talked face to face and Breece divined in a moment of dizzy revelation something about Sutter that no one had noticed before. Why, he is mad, Breece thought. He’s not what people say about him at all. He’s not just mean as a snake or eccentric or independent. He’s as mad as a hatter, and I don’t know how they’ve let him go so long.

Folks called this place haunted, felt the emanations of an unspeakable act moving outward like ripples on water.