Russell Banks

The Sweet Hereafter

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  • Genesis Gonzalezhas quoted6 years ago
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  • Anlly Zhas quoted6 years ago
    the only truly valuable thing that I owned now happened to be Daddy’s worst secret, and I meant to hold on to it.
  • Anlly Zhas quoted6 years ago
    I did not remember the accident, maybe, but I definitely knew what had happened. I could read the newspapers, and of course I had asked people, and eventually people had told me, although they had not wanted to. Everyone had come to the hospital to visit
  • Anlly Zhas quoted6 years ago
    They would have thought me cowardly if I had stayed home instead.
  • Anlly Zhas quoted6 years ago
    “Yes,” he said, and for the first time since before the accident, he looked me straight in the face. “We know the truth, Nichole. You and I.”
  • Anlly Zhas quoted6 years ago
    “But everyone will blame her now, won’t they?”

    “Most will, yes. Those that don’t know the truth will blame Dolores. People have got to have somebody to blame, Nichole.”
  • Anlly Zhas quoted6 years ago
    Right now, Sam, the thing you got to worry about is why she lied. A kid who’d do that to her own father is not normal, Sam.

    But Daddy knew why I had lied. He knew who was normal and who wasn’t.
  • Anlly Zhas quoted6 years ago
    Yes, I understand. Dolores was driving too fast, and it scared me.”

    “Mrs. Driscoll was driving too fast? What made you think that, Nichole?”

    “The speedometer. And it was downhill there.”

    “You could see the speedometer?”

    “Yes. I looked, because it was snowing so hard.
  • Anlly Zhas quoted6 years ago
    Billy said in a suddenly dead voice, “the town has gone completely crazy. I used to like this town, I used to really care about what happened here, but now … now I think I’ll sell my house and the garage and move the fuck away.”
  • Anlly Zhas quoted6 years ago
    Because the truth was that it was an accident, that’s all, and no one was to blame. “I won’t lie,” I told him.
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