Carolina QuotesMen like Jackson were so upright and honest-seeming, but Hooch knew that there wasn't no such thing as a good man, just a man who wasn't bought yet, or wasn't in deep enough trouble, or didn't have the guts to reach out and take what he wanted. That's all that virtue ever boiled down to, so far as Hooch ever saw in his life.
Orson Scott Card Connected to the Carolinas
Source
Chapter 1.
- work
- Red Prophet (1988)
- year
- 1988
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