Daniel Redfern laughs, the first real laugh I've ever heard from him, and I am put out. I am much funnier than Katherine. - Jane

Momma used to say the Indian was even worse off than the Negro, because instead of being taken from his land he'd had his land taken from him.

The day I came squealing and squalling into the world was the first time someone tried to kill me. I guess it should have been obvious to everyone right then that I wasn't going to have a normal life.

We ain't supposed to carry firearms when traveling into town but I'm always ready for someone to try and take a bite outta me, especially at the university. Everyone knows that academics are the most ruthless cutthroats around.

Being a Jedi is about choosing the light over and over again.

Momma always said a healthy serving of scorn before dinner keeps a girl slim.

I wondered if maybe it was something else, like she was afraid that she could lose me to a song.

You too. And be patient, that lawman will get his just desserts.’ His lips twist, filled with malice, ‘I ain’t yet seen the man who can do that.’ ‘Maybe that’s your problem. You been waiting for a man.

The point is, sometimes when the rabbit gets too fat, too comfortable, he makes mistakes. But the gardener, she ain’t got nothing but time. Because even the hungriest rabbit can’t eat the entire garden. At some point the good sheriff will make a mistake, some gross miscalculation, reveal some weakness, and that’s when we’ll find our freedom.

It was the midwife that tried to do me in. Truth be told, it wasn't really her fault. What else is a good Christian woman going to do when a Negro comes flying out from between the legs of the richest white woman in Haller County, Kentucky?