The Coal Tattoo Quotes

“They all knew that she was serious and they all knew what she wasn’t saying—that their land was the most important thing they had besides one another.”
― Silas House, The Coal Tattoo

“He would think they were the tears of a simple woman and he’d not have the sense to see that she was crying because she was so angry.”
― Silas House, The Coal Tattoo

“She felt as if she had spent her childhood here, running, lying back, pulling out the stamens of honeysuckle to drink their juice.”
― Silas House, The Coal Tattoo

“Be still and know that I am God, she thought. Her favorite Bible verse. And stillness had saved her grandmother once. So that’s what she had to do as well, to be still and let everything fall back into place on its own.”
― Silas House, The Coal Tattoo