4 Quotes & Sayings By Davis Grubb

Davis Grubb was born in 1874 and spent his early years in Southern Indiana. He attended the University of Michigan where he earned a degree in mechanical engineering. After his graduation, Davis worked as an engineer for several large corporations. He began writing in the late 1890s and completed his first book, The Home Place, in 1920 Read more

It was not until 1930 that Davis reached the pinnacle of success with the release of the novel The Sailor on Horseback which immediately became a bestseller. Two more bestsellers followed in the same year: The Midnight Skulker and Kentucky Pride. Davis Grubb died in 1949 after a long battle with pneumonia.

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He thought again of the watch in the window. It had twelve black numbers on its moon face and there was magic to that. For these were numbers that were not really numbers at all but letters like in words. He shivered at the possibilities of such untold magic. Davis Grubb
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He thought: Because when you tell a lie it must be to keep from saying a worse thing. Then lying is not a Sin and God will not punish you. (But what if God is one of them?) Davis Grubb
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All that evening Nell sat alone in her bedroom trembling with curious satisfaction. For punishment Eva had been sent to her room without supper and Nell sat listening now to the even, steady sobs far off down the hall. It was dark and on the river shore a night bird tried its note cautiously against the silence. Down in the pantry, the dishes done, Suse and Jessie, dark as night itself, drank coffee by the great stove and mumbled over stories of the old times before the War. Nell fetched her smelling salts and sniffed the frosted stopper of the flowered bottle till the trembling stopped. ("Where The Woodbine Twineth") . Davis Grubb