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"I've been waiting for that bright sunshine to show up and shine in my back door someday."
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"So it comes to this: I would have lost her either way. If Cole hadn't reinfected her, I would have lost her in the hospital bed. And now Cole's wolf tozin pumps through her veins, and I lose her to the woods, like I lose everything I love.So here is me, and I am a boy watched--by her parents' suspicious eyes, since they cannot prove that I kidnapped Grace but believe nonetheless--and I am a boy watchful--because Tom Culpeper's bitterness is growing palpable in this tiny town and I will NOT bury Grace's body--and I am a boy waiting--for the heat and the fruitfulness of summer, waiting to see who will walk out of those woods for me. Waiting for my lovely summer girl."

"You usually have to wait for that which is worth waiting for."

"Perhaps there is no agony worse than the tedium I experienced waiting for Something to Happen."

"The type of mixing that was out then was blending from one record to the next or waiting for the record to go off and wait for the jock to put the needle back on."

"And perhaps there is none, no morrow anymore, for one who has waited so long for it in vain. And perhaps he has come to that stage of his instant when to live is to wander the last of the living in the depths of an instant without bounds, where the light never changes and the wrecks all look alike. Bluer scarcely than white of egg the eyes stare into the space before them, namely the fullness of the great deep and unchanging calm. But at long intervals they close, with the gentle suddenness of flesh that tightens, often without anger, and closes on itself."

"I get speeding ticket like everybody else. If the restaurant is full I'm waiting in line like everybody else."

"But there isn't any second half of myself waiting to plug in and make me whole. It's there. I'm already whole."

"Making a movie is a long, dull process. There's a lot of waiting around."

"She was wishing that whatever stage of her life she was in now could be got through quickly, for it was seeing to her interminable. If life had to be looked at in terms of high moments. or peaks, then nothing had 'happened' to her for a long time; snd she could look forward to nothing much but a dwindling away from full household activity into getting old."
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"The blues is the foundation, and it's got to carry the top. The other part of the scene, the rock 'n' roll and the jazz, are the walls of the blues."

"But let's face it, I still have to look at my self and look at the things I've done down the stretch."

"I think I'm the most positive guy still going in my generation, and I'm out there to prove that."

"I look in music magazines now and see things on Luther Allison, and my name's getting out there more, thanks to all the good people at Alligator Records and at my management company."

"Well, I've had to deal with everything in my life... leavin' the family, learnin' what not and what to do."

"I have as much input to the blues; I just never got the chance, the opportunity or maybe the respect."
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