Key quotes by Doaker:

“You’d be surprised how many people trying to go North get on a train going West. They think the train’s supposed to go where they going rather than where it’s going.” (18) “They leaving cause they can’t get satisfied.” (18) “They got so many trains out there they have a hard time keeping them from running into each other… If everybody stay in one place I believe this would be a better world.” (19) “It might not be where you going. If it ain’t, then all you got to do is sit and wait cause the train’s coming back to get you. The train don’t never stop.” (19)

“That why we say Berniece ain’t gonna sell that piano. Cause her daddy died over it.” (46) “Ain’t nobody said nothing about who’s right and who’s wrong.” (46)

“Berniece need to go on and get rid of it. It ain’t done nothing but cause trouble.” (57)

“I’m just living the best way I know how. I ain’t thinking about no top or no bottom.” (93)