In the Lonely Backwater Quotes

“The TV cycled through soap operas and judge shows and talk shows. Like they were part of the TV, the adults went around and around the same topics: who was sick, got the cancer, probably from smoking, no it was black lung, well he’s just a-wasting away, who’s out of work, who’s got work, who’s knocked up, what happened to Tony, his momma would roll over in her grave, bail bond, wops’ll take care of their own, put up the place, when’s the trial? Sometimes”
― Valerie Nieman, In the Lonely Backwater

“wondered how people could live where the land around them was being torn up and reshaped all the time. I wondered how the mountains even stayed standing, with the insides being pulled out. Turned out we weren’t heading to Fairmont.”
― Valerie Nieman, In the Lonely Backwater

“So I don’t have any family. I do, in a physical, genetic sense, but not in the way of having people that you go see at holidays. Cousins that you roll around with and play Wiffle ball with and torment.”
― Valerie Nieman, In the Lonely Backwater