Saints at the River Quotes

“Not for the first time, it occurred to me that sorrow could be purified into song the same way a piece of coal is purified into a diamond.”
― Ron Rash, Saints at the River

“He carries what he feels for people deep inside. Even as a kid he was that way,” Aunt Margaret said. “Your momma knows that.” But I had wondered then as I did now what good love was that couldn’t be expressed.”
― Ron Rash, Saints at the River

“I listened to time clicking like hooves on pavement. But time isn't something you can rein in. It moves on without pause, taking us with it no matter how much we wish it otherwise.”
― Ron Rash, Saints at the River

“I knew that Lee would have preferred the newsrooms of fifty year ago, a place where he could have told dirty jokes between drags on his cigarette and sips from whiskey kept in the top desk drawer.”
― Ron Rash, Saints at the River

“and at that moment her arms and legs she did not even know were flailing cease and she becomes part of the river”
― Ron Rash, Saints at the River

“can’t watch her die,” he told her. “I just can’t.” He waited on the porch till it was over.”
― Ron Rash, Saints at the River