John

“It came very fast and the sun went a dull yellow and then everything was gray and the sky was covered and the cloud came on down the mountain and suddenly we were in it and it was snow.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

“A damp, gray sky covered southern Ohio like the skin of a corpse.”
― Donald Ray Pollock, Knockemstiff

“A lot of people get the wrong impression, think there's something romantic or tragic about hitting bottom.”
― Donald Ray Pollock, Knockemstiff

“Some people were born just so they could be buried.”
― Donald Ray Pollock, The Devil All the Time