To The Bright And Shining Sun Quotes

“He thought of Cincinnati in the spring sunlight, the rows of maple trees in front of the narrow, German houses, and the beautiful sweep of the steel bridge above the river.”
― James Lee Burke, To The Bright And Shining Sun

“You can get on the welfare. There’s plenty of people drawing it now.” “My family ain’t. You ever knowed my daddy to line up at that welfare office?” “Sometimes you ain’t got a choice about things, Perry.” “By God, I still do. We can take care of ourselves without no help from anybody else.”
― James Lee Burke, To The Bright And Shining Sun

“The likes of you stand in the welfare line and bitch about somebody not giving you a chair to set in.”
― James Lee Burke, To The Bright And Shining Sun