Minds are like flowers. If you let it sit there without soaking anything up, it will dry up.

I wonder which is worse-the death, not knowing what comes after, or the wedding, when you think you know, but you're wrong.

Oh, son, hardly anybody wants to leave. These mountains are more than just a place for folks around here.

I always, always wanted to be the Dungeon Master because that's where the creativity lies - in thinking up places, characters and situations. If done well, a game can be a novel in itself.

Is the groom going to go where no man has gone before?

The ones that landed near the bathroom are Bad Tolkien imitations or transcripts of a D&amp;D adventure; bad Herbert, Heinlein, and Asimov are below the television; and these on the bed are the ones whose authors I want to hunt down personally and slap.

Being a professional writer is a lot like being a hooker. You'd better find out if you're any good at it before you start charging for it.

Mountains have long-lost kinfolk on the other side of the Atlantic. The bloodline that marks that kinship is a vein of a green mineral called serpentine ...

The people who live happily ever after - they don't appear in the history books. They just fade away. I reckon that's what happiness is.  Pauline Foster - " The Ballad of Tom Dooley ", Sharyn McCrumb, p. 271

Boondocks' is simply the Tagalog word for mountains.

Sharyn McCrumb

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