"Suttree" Quotes
A man navigates a gritty and squalid world as he grapples with personal demons and seeks a slice of redemption along the Tennessee River.
fiction | 482 pages | Published in 2010
Quotes
Life's hard but you're young and God is with you.
A bushel of cabbage slips its green shackles.
All a man needed was a witch and a rifle.
The black scowl like a darkened sky.
Winter trees white and cold as bones beneath a moon.
Something has been taken from him. It had not been done by a hand other than his own.
If it could only be that easy. To be so empty of malice. To be so unencumbered.
Helly raised his hands. He seemed to rise from the floor as if by levitation. He wove and staggered into the blaze, the fabric of his clothing smoldering and weeping away like paper on coals. A sudden gust of smoke and sparks enwreathed him and then blew away down the river.
But how to define a torque that drove through the dark streets?
The lamentable business of the world’.
