Ron Rash Quotations

The woman doesn't look up. It's as if she's deaf. Maybe she is. Maybe she's like the Cambodian women I've read about, the ones who witnessed so many atrocities that they have willed themselves blind. Maybe that's what you have to do sometimes to survive. You kill off part of yourself, your hearing or eyesight, your capacity for hope.

One of my goals is to allow readers to see my characters and the world they inhabit as vividly as possible.

I wouldn't mind being a track and field coach.

Faulkner came from my region and taught me how you could write about a place.

Cool-Hand Luke' is one of my favorite movies.

As I get older I find myself thinking it all begins with Shakespeare.

It struck her how eating was a comfort during a hard time because it reminded you that there had been other days, good days, when you’d eaten the same thing. Reminded you there were good days in life, when precious little else did. (268)

But nothing is solid and permanent. Our lives are raised on the shakiest foundations. You don't need to read history books to know that. You only have to know the history of your own life.

Peter Geye has rendered the Minnesota north shore in all its stark, dangerous beauty, and it is the perfect backdrop for this deeply moving story of conflict and forgiveness. Safe from the Sea is a remarkable debut.

It's a hard place this world can be. No wonder a baby cries coming in to it. Tears from the start