T. R. Pearson Quotes

Thomas Reid Pearson

T. R. Pearson is an American writer. Pearson also writes crime fiction under the pen name Rick Gavin. (T. R. Pearson Quotes)

“A helplessly devoted student of human frailty.”
T. R. Pearson
Blue Ridge

“According to Daddy, that was a time of general lunacy in Neely, but then Daddy has always said there’s nothing like a good snowfall to bring out the feeble-mindedness in people.”
T. R. Pearson
A Short History of a Small Place

“From her first day with us, Kandy took lunch at the counter in Cuddy’s. They claim to serve “homestyle!” food there and, if you grew up in a cold war bunker, it might come pretty close because at Cuddy’s they open an awful lot of cans.”
T. R. Pearson
Eaglesworth

“He was accustomed to paying measurable heed only to those details that bore upon him most directly.”
T. R. Pearson
Blue Ridge

“It was one of those temporary situations with a whiff of forever about it.”
T. R. Pearson
Sleepaway

“It’s a chore for a fellow to fear for his life more than once in an evening.”
T. R. Pearson
Blue Ridge

“Momma crossed her arms over her apron bib and worked the small of her back against the edge of the doorframe. Daddy drew a Tareyton out of the pack in his shirtpocket and looked straight at me and talked straight at Momma and said, “Madness.”
T. R. Pearson
A Short History of a Small Place

“Our grown-up was dinged and damaged. One of us was only thirteen and knew far less than he thought he did, and the eleven-year-old among us had to work to keep from whining. I wanted my mother in a powerful way, which I made a brave attempt to hide.” (T. R. Pearson Quotes)
T. R. Pearson
Sleepaway

“The boiling human chaos of metropolitan New York”
T. R. Pearson
Blue Ridge

“The husk of a man in the woods below me bled into a creek that fed into a river that sparkled gaily in the winter sun.”
T. R. Pearson
Blue Ridge

“The man dabbed briefly at his lip with his bloody sleeve end and then cocked back his head and laughed. The sound was sharp and joyless and desperate.”
T. R. Pearson
Blue Ridge

“The southbound motorists crawled past, eyeing the conflagration and the quartet of cops who had arrived to eye it as well.”
T. R. Pearson
Blue Ridge

“They were the Epperson sisters, and they had distinguished themselves in the minds of the Neelyites by going from reasonably normal to unquestionably insane without ever pausing at peculiar.”