Country Dark Quotes

“Her chest felt like a shaken snow globe.”
― Chris Offutt, Country Dark

“The tree line was gone and hilltops blended with the black tapestry of night. It was country dark. He closed his eyes, feeling safe.”
― Chris Offutt, Country Dark

“He’d be all right if a man was to stretch a cow pussy over his head and let a bull fuck some sense into him.”
― Chris Offutt, Country Dark

“Trouble came their way like sideways wind in winter.”
― Chris Offutt, Country Dark

“Between Princeton and Elizabethtown they stopped twice for Tucker to avail himself of gas station facilities, the food having slid through his bowels like Sherman through Georgia.”
― Chris Offutt, Country Dark

“they still made the feather tick bust a seam once or twice a month,”
― Chris Offutt, Country Dark

“I never been one to favor laws.”
― Chris Offutt, Country Dark

“I get restless of the night.”
― Chris Offutt, Country Dark

“He saw a white figure and wondered if it was a ghost. He'd never seen one before. Depending on who it was, he might not mind too much. Still, it was disconcerting.”
― Chris Offutt, Country Dark

“Wind in the high boughs brushed leaves like the sound of distant water. As the canopy shifted, light flowed across the forest floor. He'd forgotten the pleasures of being in the woods.”
― Chris Offutt, Country Dark

“The more she knew, the worse she'd worry.”
― Chris Offutt, Country Dark

“He drove out the ridge and off the hill, wondering why he'd waved. It was instinctive, as if something had ended, a farewell to everything that had happened between them for the past sixteen years.”
― Chris Offutt, Country Dark

“I'm trying to help you."

"I never asked for help my whole life. I want what I'm owed.”
― Chris Offutt, Country Dark

“What kind of job you aiming to get?"

"The kind where a man gets paid what he's owed.”
― Chris Offutt, Country Dark

“She worried that her best was behind her now.”
― Chris Offutt, Country Dark

“The Milky Way made a blizzard of stars in the narrow gap between the hills. A whip-poor-will called, its shrill sound close to the house.”
― Chris Offutt, Country Dark

“A thorn ripped a gash that he didn't feel. His body was far away from his mind. He leaned back and stared at a patch of sky through the intertwining limbs. Nothing made sense.”
― Chris Offutt, Country Dark

“He felt bewildered, as if he inhabited someone else's life.”
― Chris Offutt, Country Dark

“The Tuckers were a good bunch with bad luck, same as a lot of hill families. You helped when you could, but he hoped he was clear of the Tuckers for good. Trouble came their way like sideways wind in winter.”
― Chris Offutt, Country Dark

“He was always on the verge of sleep, a middle area that provided no rest.”
― Chris Offutt, Country Dark

“The winner of a knife fight was the man who bled to death slowest.”
― Chris Offutt, Country Dark

“Rhonda cried once, but it went on for hours, as if she was shedding every speck of sorrow she'd ever felt.”
― Chris Offutt, Country Dark

“Tucker felt gratitude of a previously unknown depth.”
― Chris Offutt, Country Dark

“He knew he was vulnerable now, cornered with one way out.”
― Chris Offutt, Country Dark

“He figured dreams didn't amount to much but people always wanted their own to mean something.”
― Chris Offutt, Country Dark

“My wife says the good Lord laid out a rough road for all of us, and we just got to take it and keep taking it and it'll get better one of these days."

"Uh-huh. One of these days ain't coming fast enough.”
― Chris Offutt, Country Dark

“I'll not have that talk at the table."

He nodded and sipped coffee. He'd never fully comprehended what was allowed at the table and what was not.”
― Chris Offutt, Country Dark

“I'll teach you how to roll a cigarette while we're waiting. A man's got to learn that or he won't never have no way of knowing how good a store-bought is.”
― Chris Offutt, Country Dark

“Rhonda looked like she'd been sent for and couldn't come, got there and wasn't wanted.”
― Chris Offutt, Country Dark

“She could put off the inevitable but at a terrible cost.”
― Chris Offutt, Country Dark