Ron Rash Quotes

Dead and still in the world was worse than dead and in the ground. Dead in the ground at least gave you the hope of heaven.

Nothing is but what is now

One thing's sure and nothing surer. The rich get richer and the poor get- children

What made losing someone you loved bearable was not remembering but forgetting. Forgetting small things first... it's amazing how much you could forget, and everything you forgot made that person less alive inside you until you could finally endure it. After more time passed you could let yourself remember, even want to remember. But even then what you felt those first days could return and remind you the grief was still there, like old barbed wire embedded in a tree's heartwood.

She walks in beauty.

A place where something so terrible had happened shouldn't continue to exist in the world