| Ya'll like that. Ya'll come out smellin like a rose, looking like one, too. |
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| Don't take it personally when he shouts like that. He's just blowing off steam. |
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| You should close the door for conversations like that. You never know who might be listening in. |
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| This world is full of trouble! There can be no doubt of that. Nothing but bother and perplexation! |
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| Sheila told her that John said musicians were like sleep camels when it came to that. They could stay awake for days when they had to. |
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| He actually smiled again at that. This guy was one of the smilingest dudes I'd ever met. |
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| King Peter attributed his father's, King Alexander's, death to the fact that...he had not worn his steel-mesh bullet-proof shirt. |
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| Carrie told Janie that Melinda saw him in Lansing at a club, and he was tearing it up. Funny, that. Because he seems very, very shy. |
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| That tonified filly talkin' to me like that. She oughter be took down a peg or two. |
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| Plenty of people verified that... her own brother verified it... and nobody's going to unverify it now. |
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| I don't remember him saying that. I must have missed that part. |
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| When he was about five years old some kids asked Clay why his mother had called him that. And he did not know. But began to wonder. |
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| Well, one knows that. I mean, one studies galactography and gets to recognize the stars with inhabited planets in the sky at night. |
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| This is a hard road for a gradely foot like that. Will ye up, lass, and ride behind me? |
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| I'm glad you spell your name like that. It's the best of all the ways to spell Isabel. |
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| His real name was James, but those who knew him seemed never to call him that. He was Jamesy, or more often Jazz. |
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| Sometime I've set right down and eat WITH him. But you needn't tell that. A body's got to do things when he's awful hungry he wouldn't want to do as a steady thing. |
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| She was born on Christmas Day. I wanted to name her Holly. But with the last name of Wood, your mama wouldn't go for that. So we named her Christina. |
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| I don't know why I asked for that. It was very ingenuous of me. |
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| I didn't understand that. Could you explain it again more digestibly? |
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| Accepted me, did she? Doosed awkward, that. I thought she had more sense. |
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| I can joke about being a redbone, and I am that. But most folks don't make no distinction between a redbone and a colored man, unless it's to their benefit. |
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| I'll have eggs and sausage. No, scratch that. I'll have eggs and bacon. |
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| Such a shop as that...would be quite a heaven upon earth to me. |
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| Where was Uncle? Gone for a stiff one? Again? His hollow leg, you know. Ducking in the john to throw up on his loafers? Probably that. What did he have tonight? Anything good? |
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