Status Updates From As I Lay Dying

For the Lord aimed for him to do and not to spend too much time thinking, because his brain it's like a piece of machinery: it won't stand a whole lot of racking. [...] Cora's right when she says all he needs is a wife to straighten him out. And when I think. about that, I think that if nothing but being married will help a man, he's durn near hopeless.

“In the afternoon when school was out and the last one had left with his little dirty snuffling nose, instead of going home I would go down the hill to the spring where I could be quiet and hate them” lmao