Don’t compromise yourself – you’re all you have.
A battered wife is a married woman until she gets a divorce. Or until she kills the bastard.
They found Seth Hubbard in the general area where he had promised to be, though not exactly in the condition expected. He was at the end of a rope, six feet off the ground and twisting slightly in the wind.
Any lawyer worth his salt knew the first offer had to be rejected.
We were invincible because we were eighteen and stupid.
I had never seen a woman’s breasts before, and I doubted if any seven-year-old boy in Craighead County had. Maybe some kid had stumbled upon his mother, but I was certain no boy my age had never had this view.
But such a cheap shot from a sibling can never be left alone.
In life, finding a voice is speaking and living the truth. Each of you is an original. Each of you has a distinctive voice. When you find it, your story will be told. You will be heard.
Prisons are fascinating places, especially when the inmates are educated white-collar types.
Jesus preached more and taught more about helping the poor and the sick and the hungry than he did about heaven and hell. Shouldn’t that tell us something?
One thing you really have to watch as a writer is getting on a soapbox or pulpit about anything. You don’t want to alienate readers.
When witnesses concoct lies, they often miss the obvious.