Three Rivers Rising Quotes

“The sunset competes with the red glow over Johnstown.
And I know,
at any given moment,
metal is liquid fire
lighting the night sky,
becoming steel
that will build tracks
to anywhere she might be.
It will build bridges between the glittering stars
and the likes of me.”
― Jame Richards, Three Rivers Rising: A Novel of the Johnstown Flood

“No artifice,
no pretending to faint
or slipping so he could catch me.
Just our locked gaze
tightening the space between us
until our voices
need only whisper,
lips to ear,
then lips upon lips.”
― Jame Richards, Three Rivers Rising: A Novel of the Johnstown Flood