Got some dirty tricks? If that’s how it is, you done drove your ducks to the wrong puddle. - Manly Wade Wellman

If you drop a hook in, you'll get a bite right quick," I said. "Maybe not the biggest fish, but the best fighter. They'd fight one another to take the hook."
"There's some sort of parable to that thought," she said, not air way cheerfully. "How life gives you something you think is good and wholesome, and then uses it to yank you out of your world.

Weather was a-getting ready to happen.

I don’t rightly know today whether I was scared at that time. A thing can come along and happen to you, and you don’t have the time to make up your mind if you’re scared, because there’s so almighty much else you’ve got to tend to somehow.