Bubba and the Dead Woman Quotes

“In the South, there was a gentle tradition of 'it's only a crime if you get caught doing it.' Sometimes it was known as the Eleventh Commandment. Thou shall not get caught.”
― C. L. Bevill, Bubba and the Dead Woman

“Bubba showed it to his mother. Then he played the tape. It was about ten minutes of moaning, wailing, and some chains rattling.”
― C.L. Bevill, Bubba and the Dead Woman

“He was beginning to sound like a charismatic preacher on a Sunday after the welfare checks had been delivered.”
― C.L. Bevill, Bubba and the Dead Woman

“was a significant amount of profanity involved from the telephone end of the student who invited Bubba to inform George Bufford to place portions of his body inside other portions of his body that”
― C.L. Bevill, Bubba and the Dead Woman

“were”
― C.L. Bevill, Bubba and the Dead Woman

“Bubba mimicked the motion.  “So does yours.” Sheriff John shrugged.  “For your information, I’ve always had doubts about your guilt.  So I wasn’t necessarily wrong.” Bubba”
― C.L. Bevill, Bubba and the Dead Woman

“Bubba was amazed that after everything he had gone through, that it turned out to be so damned easy.  Not only was it easy but the pair of murdering would-be thieves got to dig up a rotting 1946 Chevy truck.  One of his great-uncles, who had supported the Republican candidate, Dwight E. Eisenhower, had stolen it from the governor of Texas”
― C.L. Bevill, Bubba and the Dead Woman

“Stealing the truck and burying it in the backyard was about the only way he could think to teach the damned idiot governor a lesson.  When the great uncle buried the truck he found the load of rusted-out pig iron and such, and the whole Snoddy clan had a big laugh about the so-called buried treasure.  It was common knowledge that there had never been Confederate gold on Snoddy property.  Not then and certainly not in the present. But Lurlene, also known as Donna”
― C.L. Bevill, Bubba and the Dead Woman

“Hey,” said Bubba.  “You owe me an apology.” Sheriff John choked for a moment.  “I don’t think so.” “Cain’t you even say you was wrong about me?” “I notice that your accent goes country when you want it to,” Sheriff John remarked, folding his massive arms across his chest. Bubba mimicked”
― C.L. Bevill, Bubba and the Dead Woman

“There was a certain amount of shock involved.  Up until the time when the murderers so casually confessed to the planning and murdering of a completely innocent woman, Bubba had assumed the best of the worst scenario, that Melissa had come to see him to apologize for past deeds and simply been in the wrong place at the wrong time.  But the truth was far more insidious.  The theory was that she had been lured by Lurlene in order to frame Bubba for murder.  The story about Bubba and his ex-fiancée was well-known in the community.  It was only a matter of finding the details.  Then there was the simple process of stealing a gun from Miz Demetrice’s house.  That was another well-known fact in the community; Miz Demetrice liked to keep guns around her house.  The gun was used in the murder, wiped clean, and then hidden in Bubba’s woodpile, where the police would almost certainly find it, which they had with the help of an anonymous phone call. It”
― C.L. Bevill, Bubba and the Dead Woman

“Miz Demetrice had been adamant.  “I wouldn’t leave his office until he agreed to see me.” She made a noise not unlike an hmph.  “Next election, I believe my five hundred dollars will go to”
― C.L. Bevill, Bubba and the Dead Woman

“few inches beneath what had been his fontanel. ”
― C.L. Bevill, Bubba and the Dead Woman

“Bubba thought of something else that needed a little tender, loving care, and then mentally chastised himself. Bubba, he told himself silently.”
― C.L. Bevill, Bubba and the Dead Woman