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I'm dead. You want to talk about my family and here I been dead to them for fifty years. Leave me alone. Don't bother me. They want no parts of me and me I don't want no parts of them. Hurry up and get this interview over with. I want to watch Dallas. - James McBride, The Color of Water [1996] (ch. 1) The candleflame and the image of the candleflame caught in the pierglass twisted and righted when he entered the hall and again when he shut the door. He took off his hat and came slowly forward. - Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses [1992] See the child. He is pale and thin, he wears a thin and ragged linen shirt. - Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian [1985] They stood in the doorway and stomped the rain from their boots and swung their hats and wiped the water from their faces. Out in the street the rain slashed through the standing water driving the gaudy red and green colors of the neon signs to wander and seethe and rain danced on the steel tops of the cars parked along the curb. - Cormac McCarthy, Cities of the Plain [1998] (ch. 1) Dear friend now in the dusty clockless hours of the town when the streets lie black and steaming in the wake of the watertrucks and now when the drunk and the homeless have washed up in the lee of walls in alleys or abandoned lots and cats go forth highshouldered and lean in the grim perimeters about, now in these sootblacked brick or cobbled corridors where lightwire shadows make a gothic harp of cellar doors no soul shall walk save you. - Cormac McCarthy, Suttree [1979] When they came south of Grant County Boyd was not much more than a baby and the newly formed county they'd named Hidalgo was itself little older than the child. In the country they'd quit lay the bones of a sister and the bones of his maternal grandmother. The new county was rich and wild. You could ride clear to Mexico and not strike a crossfence. - Cormac McCarthy, The Crossing [1994] (ch. 1) It was June, 1933, one week after Commencement, when Kay Leiland Strong, Vassar '33, the first of her class to run around the table at the Class Day dinner, was married to Harald Petersen, Reed '27, in the chapel of St. George's Church, P.E., Karl F. Reiland, Rector. - Mary McCarthy, The Group [1963] When Henry Mulcahy, a middle-aged instructor of literature at Jocelyn College, Jocelyn, Pennsylvania, unfolded the President's letter and became aware of its contents, he gave a sudden sharp cry of impatience and irritation, as if such interruptions could positively be brooked no longer. - Mary McCarthy, The Groves of Academe [1952] When the MS Irish Oak sailed from Cork in October 1949, we expected to be in New York City in a week. - Frank McCourt, 'Tis [1999] (ch. 1) BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK That's your dream out now. - Frank McCourt, 'Tis [1999] (prologue) BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK My father and mother should have stayed in New York where they met and married and where I was born. - Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes [1996] BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK An army post in peacetime is a dull place. - Carson McCullers, Reflections in a Golden Eye [1941] In the town there were two mutes, and they were always together. - Carson McCullers, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter [1940] It happened that green and crazy summer when Frankie was twelve years old. - Carson McCullers, The Member of the Wedding [1946] The young soldier stood looking doubtfully up at the unlabelled entrance to ward X, his kit bag lowered to the ground while he assessed the possibility that this was indeed his ultimate destination. - Colleen McCullough, An Indecent Obsession [1981] (ch. 1) BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK On December 8th, 1915, Meggie Cleary had her fourth birthday. After the breakfast dishes were put away her mother silently thrust a brown paper parcel into her arms and ordered her outside. - Colleen McCullough, The Thorn Birds [1977] BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK Far off in the mountain lands, somewhere to the east of the setting sun, lies the principality of Graustark, serene relic of rare old feudal days. - George Barr McCutcheon, Beverly of Graustark [1904] Mr. Grenfall Lorry boarded the eastbound express at Denver with all the air of a martyr. - George Barr McCutcheon, Graustark [1901] It was a bright, clear afternoon in the late fall that pretty Miss Cable drove up in her trap and waited at the curb for her father to come forth from his office in one of Chicago's tallest buildings. - George Barr McCutcheon, Jane Cable [1906] A tall young man sped swiftly up the wide stone steps leading to the doorway of a mansion in one of Chicago's most fashionable avenues. - George Barr McCutcheon, Nedra [1905] He was imposing, even in his pensiveness. - George Barr McCutcheon, The Daughter of Anderson Crow [1907] The death of Taswell Skaggs was stimulating, to say the least, inapplicable though the expression may seem. - George Barr McCutcheon, The Man from Brodney's [1908] "My dear," said Mr. Blithers, with decision, "you can't tell me." - George Barr McCutcheon, The Prince of Graustark [1914] He was a tall, rawboned, rangy young fellow with a face so tanned by wind and sun you had the impression that his skin would feel like leather if you could affect the impertinence to test it by the sense of touch. - George Barr McCutcheon, Truxton King [1909] Somewhere in The Bronx, only twenty minutes or so from the cemetery, Maeve found a small bar-and-grill in a wooded alcove set well off the street that was willing to serve the funeral party of forty-seven medium-rare roast beef and boiled potatoes and green beans amandine, with fruit salad to begin and vanilla ice cream to go with the coffee. - Alice McDermott, Charming Billy [1998] Displaying page 57 of 95 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 [57] 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95
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