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"I was too smart and that made people uncomfortable--most folks where we've lived our whole lives don't trust too much intelligence in a woman. There is also the problem of my eyes--they don't hide any..."

"In some ways, forcing me to leave was the best thing that could have happened to me. In other ways, it was a disaster. I'm still glad they did it though, because I think I might have just died if I ha..."

"And somewhereout there,in the river ofaddicts, alcoholics,wife beaters,doormats,overeducated legalized thieves,fascist police,and bitter rivalries—someone told meit’s a good city,and I don’t knowwhat’..."

"She wondered how many towns like this existed all over the country?Bucolic scenery on the outside, with its own private soap operas, gossips and hells on the inside. She wondered if the suburbs in hug..."

"There was not a lot of room for someone like me, who kept the gossip mill running like a hamster wheel."

"He had to accept the fate of every newcomer to a small town where there are plenty of tongues that gossip and few minds that think."

"When small towns find they cannot harm the strangest of their members, when eccentrics show resilience, they are eventually embraced and even cherished."

"Change is still resented on the Plains, so much so much so that many small-town people cling to the dangerous notion that while the world outside may change drastically, their town does not...... when..."

"By the time a town is 75 or 100 years old, it may be filled with those who have come to idealize their isolation. Often these are people who never left at all, or fled back to the safety of the town a..."

"More than ever, I've come to see conspiracy theories as the refuge of those who have lost their natural curiosity to cope with change."