40 Quotes About Mississippi-authors

Books, the books that I loved above all else to spend my time with, were the great tools for understanding one's life and the lives of other people.

When she thinks a book is very good, what she says to herself is: yes, that's how things are. I hadn't thought of it before, but that's how things are.

Then the light changed the water, until all about them the woods in the rising wind seemed to grow taller and blow inward together and suddenly turn dark. The rain struck heavily. A huge tail seemed to lash through the air and the river broke in a wound of silver.

Later they took him to Jackson and that explained it; he was crazy.

Love don't just go away like that, Cille," Sandman said."It do.

My rhythm was joined with that of the Mississippi seasons. To change would shift everything inside of me...

I sat there listening to "We Shall Overcome," looking out of the window at the passing Mississippi landscape.

Christophe peeled the shrimp slowly and carefully: that was his way around her, and it was the exact opposite of his usual demeanor. She knew it for what it was: love.

He read it over twenty times and though the darkness that sang on held steady about him, the unhurried words fell bright through his mind, going down golden through deep water, and when one passed another came, ceaselessly, shining.