Quotes About Althea

There's no need to make a big deal out of it," said Milo, but Glen was already moving towards the front door. "I need to walk," he said. "I need to... I need to be free!" And then he was gone, the door swinging closed behind him. "What a dramatic young man," said Althea.

Althea had never known that misery could achieve perfection. Only now, as she sat staring at her emptied glass, did she grasp how completely wrong her world had become. Things had been bad before, things had been flawed, but it was only today that she had made one stupid decision after another until everything was as completely wrong as it could possibly be.

They'd eaten the nooning over an hour before. Fried catfish and hot bread. Heaven. And Miss Althea sitting across from him at the table, smiling and talking. Heaven again.