Quotes from Harriette Arnow

Usually we hate things or people with which we have some emotional involvement.

Then would come the remembering again, and the knife would be lost again while she (Gertie) sat helplessly fumbling, once more far from the man in the wood, tossed and whirled about as she was in the ringing, roaring fury." The Dollmaker, Harriette Arnow, p 418

Isn't it awful how they work at terrible jobs—have you seen Sophronie's hands lately—and then waste their money?

I've been readen th Bible an a hunten God fer a long while-off an on- but it ain't so easy as picken up a nickel off the floor.