Quotes from Jon Talton, Cactus Heart, 2007

Saturday the sun returned to a sky scrubbed flawlessly blue by the rain. It would take Phoenix at least a day to dirty up the air again.

Throughout history, the desert has been a place of trial, penance, and hard-won revelation. God lives in the desert. But Satan does, too.

I dropped an olive into the martini like making a green wish.