The Last Ballad Quotes

“There is an old saying that every story, even your own, is either happy or sad depending on where you stop telling it. I believe I'll stop telling this one here.”
― Wiley Cash, The Last Ballad

“You exist whether it is written down or not, and you are dead whether it's written down or not too.”
― Wiley Cash, The Last Ballad

“It don’t get no easier to lose somebody you love,” Ella said. “No matter how long it’s been.”
― Wiley Cash, The Last Ballad

“The trees along the road were mad with crows. The birds ruffled the leaves like a heavy wind, and their cries seemed to bore into Verchel’s ears.”
― Wiley Cash, The Last Ballad

“There is an old saying that every story, even your own, is either happy or sad depending on where you stop telling it.”
― Wiley Cash, The Last Ballad

“Sprays of blue and purple wildflowers grew along the bank, and as she ran past them Ella marked their beauty, thinking what a strange thing it was for her to notice them in such detail at this moment. She did not know who ran in front of her or behind her, but she was aware that the dirt had blackened and hardened, and she discovered that she ran through the first rows of a cotton field, the bolls exploding in white puffs all around here. There were more gunshots behind her, and she wanted to drop to her knees and take shelter, but the field was open and the cotton plants low, and there was nowhere else to go.”
― Wiley Cash, The Last Ballad

“the librarians and booksellers who sustain the creative, intellectual and civic life of our nation.”
― Wiley Cash, The Last Ballad

“You're somebody, just as good as anybody.”
― Wiley Cash, The Last Ballad

“Your wife can't give you that. All she can do is fool you into believing you don't want the things you actually want. That ain't grace," Wiggins said. "That's trickery.”
― Wiley Cash, The Last Ballad