Cold Moon Over Babylon Quotes

“In the hour before a thunderstorm, the color of the forest deepens: the pine needles take on a dense vibrant greenness they possess at no other time, the slender trunks go black, and the leaden sky above sinks lower by the minute.”
― Michael McDowell, Cold Moon Over Babylon

“Look down fair moon and bathe this scene, Pour softly down night’s nimbus floods on faces ghastly, swollen, purple, On the dead on their backs with arms toss’d wide, Pour down your unstinted nimbus sacred moon. —Walt Whitman Sequel to Drum-Taps”
― Michael McDowell, Cold Moon Over Babylon

“I sort of wish that was what happened though, Ginny, because that would mean the girl is all right. Fourteen-year-old girls have run off before."

Ginny eyed the sheriff severely. "Not fourteen-year-old girls who had grandmas like Evelyn Larkin.”
― Michael McDowell, Cold Moon Over Babylon

“La même barque verte dans laquelle Jim et Jo-Ann Larkin avaient trouvé la mort avait convoyé le cadavre de leur fille à-travers le Styx”
― Michael McDowell, Cold Moon Over Babylon