"I waited to be told what was good about me. I wondered later if this was why there were so many more women than men at the ranch. All the time I had spent readying myself, the articles that taught me life was really just a waiting room until someone noticed you..."
"People in Appalachia insisted that the mountains breathed, and it was true: the steep hollow behind the farmhouse took up one long, slow inhalation every morning and and let it back down through their open windows and across the fields throughout--just one full, deep breath each day."
"We each owe a death, there are no exceptions, I know that, but sometimes, oh God, the Green Mile is so long."
