Junkyard Quotes 1-5, Week 7

"lips taste like winter peaches and cold water."
--reader from creative writing panel at the Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900

"the sound of a sickle"
--poetry reading at Louisville

"as if I were existence itself"
--poetry reading at Louisville

"Although the fate of the Holberts was perhaps more violent than that of many lynched African Americans, both Harris and McMillen suggest it was, on the whole, typical."
--Gary Richards, Lovers & Beloveds: Sexual Otherness in Southern Fiction 1936-1961
(I really like the structure of this particular sentence.)

"she remembered that she still held pieces of mushroom in her hands, and she set to work very carefully, nibbling first at one and then the other"
Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland