Doghouse Roses Quotes

“Their life together was filled with bright mornings and starlit nights that consistently outshone the darker times between. Even those hard days were times of learning when their differences became gifts from one to the other.”
― Steve Earle, Doghouse Roses: Stories

“He had entered into every relationship in his life in good faith, reveling in the breathless flush of new love for as long as it lasted and then valiantly pretending not to notice that it had faded for as long as he could. When he finally moved on, he always left something of him behind and took something of her along until he became, in essence, every lover he had ever been with. He assimilated all of their strengths and weaknesses, and any virtue he possessed was learned from one woman or another, a consolation prize bestowed on him at their parting.”
― Steve Earle, Doghouse Roses: Stories

“As he left room 817, Nguyen turned for one final look before he allowed the soldiers to enter and remove the body. Nguyen thought that the American looked almost serene, lying there, his face bathed in the first rays of the sunlight of a new day, the sound of his laughter still suspended like dandelion seeds in the air nearby, resonating in harmony with that of a former enemy's.”
― Steve Earle, Doghouse Roses: Stories

“Will’m”
― Steve Earle, Doghouse Roses: Stories