The Most They Ever Had Quotes

“The first generation worked a ten-hour shift”
― Rick Bragg, The Most They Ever Had

“You need not use foul language to damn a man here. Just say that a day’s work would kill him”
― Rick Bragg, The Most They Ever Had

“The scale spun to the truth of it. The two women, together, had picked more than six hundred pounds of cotton--at two dollars per one hundred pounds, they made six dollars each, and a little change. They had picked three times their weight.”
― Rick Bragg, The Most They Ever Had

“She passed November 25, 2002,' he said, pointing to a sepia-toned photo of them taken when they were still young. 'She was a wife to me, boy,' he said, and then he looked around the room, his eyes fierce, as if daring someone to disagree. He is asked if he has anything else to say about baseball, but he is lost now, in a place even the cheers cannot reach, cannot brighten.”
― Rick Bragg, The Most They Ever Had