Cold Turkey at Nine Quotes

“I walked through the house to the back porch and found the screen door covered top to bottom, side to side, with cats meowing for food. . . . They were so thick on the door I could barely see the light between them.”
― Earl B. Russell, Cold Turkey at Nine: The Memoir of a Problem Child

“When Uncle W. G. held out his hand to take my money, I dropped the dead mouse in his hand.”
― Earl B. Russell, Cold Turkey at Nine: The Memoir of a Problem Child

“I was struck by the image of Daddy still dressed in that same plaid shirt and undershirt with the bloodstains below the neck, the one I had first seen him wearing in the jail the previous day.”
― Earl B. Russell, Cold Turkey at Nine: The Memoir of a Problem Child