Awash Quotes

“A tear streaked slowly down her bruised cheek, and he wondered how God could be so cruelly ironic, that He would put Boudreaux in the position of having to reassure his daughter that he didn’t find her unattractive.”
― Dawn Lee McKenna, Awash

“Wyatt can handle it,” he said. “It doesn’t take a saint to raise another man’s child, Maggie.”
― Dawn Lee McKenna, Awash

“Is the night chilly and dark? The night is chilly, but not dark. The thin gray cloud is spread on high, It covers but not hides the sky. The moon is behind, and at the full; And yet she looks both small and dull. The night is chill, the cloud is gray: ‘Tis a month before the month of May, And the Spring comes slowly up this way.”
― Dawn Lee McKenna, Awash

“Back where I come from, chicken broke, he don’t go the doctor,” she said. “He go the soup pot.”
― Dawn Lee McKenna, Awash

“There weren’t many true autumn days in Apalachicola, FL, and perhaps this was one reason that those days were the girl’s favorites.”
― Dawn Lee McKenna, Awash