It wasn't that I had gotten it right . . . but that I had gotten true.

- Rick Bragg

It was a good moment, the kind you would like to press between the pages of a book, or hide in your sock drawer, so you could touch it again.

- Rick Bragg

It is a common condition of being poor...you are always afraid that the good things in your life are temporary, that someone can take them away, beca…

- Rick Bragg

I believe that if we are going to write about life and death, we should not do it from the cheap seats.

- Rick Bragg

Don’t worry about what people think, because once it’s all over the people who love you will make you what they want you to be, and the people who do…

- Rick Bragg

Momma kept a garden, which sounds romantic to people who have never held a hoe

- Rick Bragg

This is a place where grandmothers hold babies on their laps under the stars and whisper in their ears that the lights in the sky are holes in the fl…

- Rick Bragg

But I hope I will never have a life that is not surrounded by books, by books that are bound in paper and cloth and glue, such perishable things for …

- Rick Bragg

The only thing poverty does is grind down your nerve endings to a point that you can work harder and stoop lower than most people are willing to. It …

- Rick Bragg