Texas, United States (Google Maps ⧉, OpenStreetMap ⧉)

"behind which were Chihuahua and New Mexico and Texas."

"In Texas, school librarians need a master’s degree and two years of teaching experience—and I do enjoy teaching."

"For the next twenty-nine years, I work in the same small suburban school district in Texas, the last fourteen of which I spend as the district librarian."

"I listen to a school board meeting in Texas where a conservative group proposes banning any book in a middle school library that includes illustrations of the human body."

"One regular patron is a snowbird who lives in Wisconsin during the summer and in the winter months comes down here to Texas."

"The company gives him a choice: get laid off or take a job in either North Carolina or Texas."

"There's our girl. Cheryl Austin from Texas. She's cute. Fresh. Good figure. She's an actress, sort of. She does a few commercials. Maybe a Nissan commercial. Whatever. She meets some people. Makes some contacts. Gets on some lists."

"I only met her a short time ago. Four, five months ago. I thought she was a nice girl. Texas girl, sweet."

"She talked about what Cheryl had been like, as a little girl. How she had grown up in Texas."

"Or Texas. Nobody I know cares about Texas."

"I had to squint so that the room wouldn’t start spinning. It was a habit I developed in Texas when I was a boy."

"Are you from L.A? No. Texas."

"Radio Station Employees traveling out of Texas with wives and children and embezzled cash and Schemes for Getting Money and Never Delivering on Piecework, an inchoate army on the move."

"I've got my full rucksack pack and it's spring, I'm going to go southwest to the dry land, to the long lone land of Texas and Chihuahua and the gay streets of Mexico night, music coming out of doors, girls, wine, weed, wild hats, viva!"

"And then suddenly I remembered: the white sheets which my mother would hang up to dry in the Texas sun. And, drying, they flapped cleanly in the wind under the vast miles of equally clean sky."

"After Phoenix is New Mexico. After that, Texas, I think. And then, no sé. Tennessee, maybe? It’s a big country."

"After that I could go up and sit in the gas chamber at San Quentin and laugh. Because it was the funniest goddamned thing that had ever happened. A black son of a bitch destroying himself because of a no-good white slut from Texas. It was so funny because it didn't make sense."

"…killing people from Floidra to Texas and down iMntoexico."

"Kayla is from Texas like my biologicalmother."

"…by a group of Texas Rangers in 1853."

"…My grandma’s in Texas."

"—¿Es un estado en Mexico? —Texas ya es parte de los Estados Unidos."

"—He was born in Texas. His grandma was born there too and her grandma. They belong here, Mama."