Quotes from Sandra Dallas

Missouri Ann ate her bit of orange slowly. Tastes like summer, she said.

to sheer numbers, the North would have won again. Moses then proposed "Turkey in the Straw.

I must learn to be obedient. How fortunate I am to have a husband who helps me.

Proverbs 31:27: "She looketh well to the way of her household and eateth not the bread of idleness.

Sometimes it seemed as if the burden of each death was added to the others until she was bowed under the weight of dead souls.

Now I am shut up with his mother on Bramble farm and she is no better for conversation than prune whip

I don't know how a woman can have such a poor view of herself as to show off poor stitching.

Emma fussed with the cinnamon-rose starts she had planted all over the backyard. She was as tender with the roses as if they were her children, and every hour or two she watered them.

They were earthy people, devoid of refinement.

Still, who knew how the old mountain took retribution for having its insides clawed out.

Will had loved the snow, the cleanness of it, the quiet, the sense of peace it brought, had loved it even though winter meant hard chores.

wrinkled silk dress and high-heeled shoes making her way past the apartment.

What Tomi liked best was school, which had opened late in the fall of 1942.

It was marrying that made women appreciate other women.

Jam on a winter took away the blue devils. It was like tasting summer.