Wildfires must come and run their course, but take care not to scorch the earth too completely. One day you may want it again. [There Is A Season - Book III of IV]

What startled him the most was that someone as little as Miss Pauling could have that much blood to even lose. It was a distant sort of startled, one that began deep in Scout's gut and welled up slowly, at about the same rate the ragged back of Pauling's dress was turning one wet shade of blackish red.

When the embers fade, look to the ashes. Remember what they were. Where there was once life, there can be life again, if you will only seek it. [There Is A Season - Book IV of IV]

But when can I go? You keep saying—the guys at the other place said it was temporary holding. Now you want to ask me questions? They already asked me a bunch of questions, I don't want to do it again. I don't understand why you're keeping me here. I haven't done anything wrong. If I answer the questions, can I go?

"How—how long do rattlesnakes take to kill a guy?" I asked eventually, casual, like I didn't have no stake in the answer.