Red Clay Quotes

“They’re always here. Your people will always be with you, whether they’re living or passed on. It doesn’t matter; they’ll always be around to look after you when times are hard or when you’re just feeling sad. Close your eyes and relax and call out to them in your mind, and they’ll be right there to comfort you and to remind you that you’re never alone. Your great-grandma Elmira knew all about that. I’ll tell you a story she told me a long time ago.”
― Charles B. Fancher, Red Clay

“Sometimes there ain’t no answer, Felix. Sometimes, a man just got to take life the way it come and hope he on the right side of things with God,” Jimmy said. “Look at you.”
― Charles B. Fancher, Red Clay

“Felix loved his mother. He loved her for the gentle warmth in which she had always enveloped him, and he loved her for her fierce protection, like the time she had put herself between him and the overseer’s lash and for the tears she shed when she was forced to whip him herself. The emotion of the memory encircled Felix’s heart and squeezed it until his eyes filled with water that spilled onto his cheeks.”
― Charles B. Fancher, Red Clay

“Her prayers streamed up through the roof of the cabin and spread like stars in the heavens”
― Charles B. Fancher, Red Clay

“She had known immediately that he would be the man she would marry, that he would be the father of her children and the north star of her existence for the rest of her days on this earth. She could not imagine an existence without him, and yet here she was, alone but determined to sail on, with his hand reaching across time and space to hold hers steady on the tiller.”
― Charles B. Fancher, Red Clay