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“What a peculiar balance between desire to be wanted and the fear of being unwanted it is that keeps us safely moored in longstanding romantic love like a sailor on a sloppy deck in a tossing storm ready to be capsized or thrown overboard by the next big wave.”

“Fiddle music and candle-light are just fancy, nonpoisonous names for getting drunk.”

“Yeah, but you’re my spawn. You came from me. From your mother and I. Written in my own heart’s blood, light of my life, from my corpus to yours. My heart was the metronome to the cadence of which yours learned to sing.”

“You’ll remember home, even cut off like you’ll be.”

This book has this mountain kid romanticizing Louisiana, which is a feat!