Crossed by Death Quotes

“I’d driven past this old gas station all my life and had mourned as the vegetation took it over and began to pull it down over the past few years. I knew, though, that no one in our rural mountain county was going to buy the place, not after someone had been murdered there twenty years ago. A single gas pump on a country road wasn’t enough incentive to take on that bad mojo.”
― A.C.F. Bookens, Crossed by Death

“though, because the station had been there for almost a hundred years – first as a country store and then as a welcome fueling spot twenty-five miles from the nearest city. I was determined to not let it all disappear when the bulldozers parked outside knocked it down. My fifty dollars had gained me entry and rights”
― A.C.F. Bookens, Crossed by Death

“As I set a sixth case of Cheerwine by the door, I made my plan for”
― A.C.F. Bookens, Crossed by Death

“but I could see the glint of light off glass in the back. Jackpot!”
― A.C.F. Bookens, Crossed by Death

“When she died, I brought the piece home to remember her and how she taught me to look at life, as a path that is fraught but never solitary.”
― A.C.F. Bookens, Crossed by Death

“Most of the color had fallen from the trees already, but I loved this time of year when the golden trees – the beeches mostly – held their leaves the longest. On a day like today, when the sun was bright, the mountains looked decorated with lights.”
― A.C.F. Bookens, Crossed by Death

“she sometimes gave me straight talk that made me bristle at first when she thought I needed it, she was one of those people who listened well and continued to think about your conversation long after it was done. She was my go-to person when life got hard, and today, well, today felt hard.”
― A.C.F. Bookens, Crossed by Death