Jena Engstrom: Memory Jacks

Quotes 

• Memory Jacks : It was me that lit the fire! It wasn't worth livin' in anyhow. Oh, I'm sick of livin' like a swamp rat. Ever since Ma died it's been nothin' but you drinkin' and shootin' up people. Well, I'm sick of it! Little Sandy here needs medicine and Jim Bob's gettin' meaner and gettin' ready to gun people just like you.

• Memory Jacks : Pa, when I put that comb and looked at that little reading book and put those shoes on Sandy, it just told me somethin' plain. I'm through livin' filthy, stupid, like the wild hogs. Times are changin' like Mr. Linc says. Time we went in and learned to act like people.