Basil E. Bacorn

“People who have lived together for many generations share a special kind of madness.”
― Catriona Ward, The Last House on Needless Street

“People here liked to say they rooted for the underdog, but some of them got real quiet when the underdog was different from them.”
― J. Ryan Stradal, Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club

“But people in a small town tend to do a lot of talking, even when they don’t know what they’re talking about.”
― Don Roff, Heebie-Jeebies: Volume One

“The town draws a veil over certain events. This is a small community where everyone knows that sometimes the contract to forget is as important as any promise to remember. Children can grow up having no knowledge of the indiscretion of their father in his youth or the illegitimate sibling who lives fifty miles away and bears another man’s name. History is that which is agreed upon by mutual consent. That’s how life goes on; protected by the silence that anaesthetises shame.”
― M.L. Stedman, The Light Between Oceans