TBOT: Good Sentences

Today, my copy of Things Become Other Things (TBOT for short), by Craig Mod arrived.

I just read the preface, and found these sentences that I really liked:

Folks here harbored their own sense of decay.

The world all goin' sideways, she said, and don't know if it can right itself. Said, Can't blame a person fo wanting to have a drink.

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I'm finding the style of writing, where quote marks are not used, to be something I like more and more.

I don't know why that is.