Now you look like a Boatwright. Now you got the look. You’re as old as you’re ever gonna get, girl. This is the way you’ll look till you die. (Chapter 1)

Earle looks like trouble coming in on greased skids. (Chapter 2)

You’re a Boatwright, Bone, even if you are the strangest girl-child we got. (Chapter 2)

I’ll tell you what’s true. You’re mine now. (Chapter 5)

He gets crazy when he’s angry. (Chapter 5)

I was never gonna have my kids know what it was like. Never was gonna have them hungry, or scared, or cold. Never, you hear me? Never! (Chapter 6)

What’d you expect? Look what he married. (Chapter 7)

She’s my girl, too. Someone’s got to love her enough to care how she turns out. (Chapter 8)

You’re right girl. Glen don’t like you much. He’s jealous of you, I think. (Chapter 8)

A man belongs to the woman that... (Chapter 10)