Down River Quotes

“I'd been awake for thirty-six hours and driving for ten. Restless weeks, sleepless nights, and the decision stole into me like a thief. I never planned to go back to North Carolina- I'd buried it- but I blinked and found my hands on the wheel, Manhattan a sinking island to the north. I wore a week-old beard and three day denim, felt stretched by an edginess that bordered on pain, but no one here would fail to recognize me. That's what home was all about, for good or bad.”
― John Hart, Down River

“Then she turned for the great mouth of a door, and by the time it inhaled her, she was a much older woman.”
― John Hart, Down River

“The mind wanders and the mouth, it seems, is more than willing to follow.”
― John Hart, Down River

“The gray light was unforgiving, and the road in was a hard, fast slide to the bottom rung of the human experience.”
― John Hart, Down River

“We crossed through cornfields and soy, a new planting of loblolly pines,”
― John Hart, Down River

“I wondered if there was any of that boy left in me, or had the cancer, indeed, eaten him all away?”
― John Hart, Down River

“Mistakes can be undone, wrongs righted. That’s what brought me home. Hope. And anger.”
― John Hart, Down River

“their diamonds struggled for luster in the empty light.”
― John Hart, Down River

“she’d first went in,”
― John Hart, Down River

“New York had taught me about hard stone, narrowness, and gray shadow.”
― John Hart, Down River

“But death and blood was part of what it took to go from boy to man, no matter what my mother had to say about it.”
― John Hart, Down River

“Nothing felt certain, so I made a choice. Hope, I decided. I would wake to a sense of hope. I”
― John Hart, Down River

“But things can change, that's what I told myself. Mistakes can be undone, wrongs righted. That's what brought me home. Hope.”
― John Hart, Down River