Fugitives of the Heart Quotes

“Almost an hour passed, and the incident seemed forgotten when the man came back out the Paiton Hollow road and when he did, he was carrying a shotgun breeched at port arms and striding purposely toward the high front porch.”
― William Gay, Fugitives of the Heart

“Hey Yates. I seen you at church Sunday. Say you did? Well you won’t again. Yates drank from his orange and set the bottle back down. Them son of a bitches is crazy. Church my ass. They ought to just change the sign and make it a crazy house. I seen you leavin early. Well. I never was one for growin old but I would like to see twentyone. That goddamned Sursee woman run flat over me and was lookin to do it again. She done it apurpose too. She was just taken hard by the spirit. She was taken hard by somethin. All of them sons of a bitches was.”
― William Gay, Fugitives of the Heart

“Thanks for slippin out, he said. I know you’d be in trouble if she caught you. Well, she said lightly, trouble is what I know best. He could see the shape of her dress. Her pale arms laced across paler knees. He knew with a weight in his heart that he’d never see anything he thought lovelier.”
― William Gay, Fugitives of the Heart

“Yates hadn’t thought she noticed he was even in the world, but she didn’t miss much. As she crossed the room she glanced at him, nodded formally and gave him an enigmatic half smile that so disrupted his perception of time that she was already out the door and the screen slapped to before he came to himself. When he did he was up immediately. Opportunity or what passed for it in these provinces had knocked but tentatively once and he didn’t expect it to happen again.”
― William Gay, Fugitives of the Heart