Quotes from Dorothy Garlock

I'm not looking to write the great American novel, win a Pulitzer or teach history. I write to entertain my readers.

It was the strangest sensation, fallin' in love. 'Bout the only thing I compare it to would be jumpin' off a big cliff. Once you're past the edge, there ain't no particular reason to be graspin' for a line a safety. You just keep on fallin' anyhow, so you might as well enjoy it the whole way down.

I've never done this when it was an act of love.

Could it possibly be that he yearned for some of the same things she yearned for? Love. Someone to call your own. Someone to share the joys and the sorrows of life.

It's so Quite around here, I'm sure I heard a Bird Fart!

She wasn't certain of exactly what they had together; she doubted Owen knew, either; but whatever it was, she desperately wanted to hold on to it. They were only at the beginning of what they could become together; if she could help it, she would do anything that she could to keep it from ending.

come out in daylight unless

keep his eyes open for very long at a time. He didn't even try to figure out how his brother had found him. He felt only a tremendous relief that he had. After dark Ike led the wagon past the school and into the yard of the homestead. As soon as the wagon stopped