Kings of the Earth Quotes

“There's nothing else in this world the color of a school bus. They call it yellow but it's not quite yellow, and it's not orange either. I'd say it's something somewhere in between margarine and Velveeta. It's not a natural color. Then again I guess if we wanted kids to grow up natural we wouldn't put them on a school bus in the first place.”
― Jon Clinch, Kings of the Earth

“You owe some things to the dead even if they're not your own dead. I guess in some way they're all your own.”
― Jon Clinch, Kings of the Earth

“So you try to understand how people think, and sometimes it surprises you. People don't always see things the same way you see them. But if you listen carefully enough - respectfully enough - and if you pay attention to the things that matter to people, sometimes you'll hear a story that not only explains things you already know, like the burst blood vessels and the urine in the bed, but things you haven't even heard about yet, like Vernon Proctor's not having had cancer in the first place. And how he might die from it anyhow. When those things start coming together, you start thinking maybe you know anything. Which I suppose is why they invented the courts.”
― Jon Clinch, Kings of the Earth