Southerners ask intimate questions in the way monkeys groom each other for lice, not to pry but to make you feel cared for.

- Reynolds Price

Many Americans would die naked in the middle of the road before they'd tell you what's hurt them most. But a born Southerner will show you the cell i…

- Reynolds Price

Cities are the least permanent things in our civilization.

- Reynolds Price

Stand up at sunrise and meet what they send you.

- Reynolds Price

Strength just comes in one brand - you. Stand up at sunrise and meet what they send you and keep your hair combed

- Reynolds Price

Life is short and often stingy; feast the heart with what it craves, short of cruelty, and let the world wonder.

- Reynolds Price

What I still ask for daily-for life as long as I have work to do, and work as long as I have life.

- Reynolds Price

The sound of story is the dominant sound of our lives.

- Reynolds Price

The only thing more destructive than a tornado is a family.

- Reynolds Price