Monica Ferris > Quotes

“it takes two people to cut you to the heart: an enemy to slander you and a friend to tell you what the enemy said.”
― Monica Ferris, Framed in Lace

“Sometimes,” she murmured, “on cold, starry nights in Minnesota, if you stand really still and listen really hard . . . you’ll freeze solid.”
― Monica Ferris, The Drowning Spool

“The limerick packs laughs anatomical, into space that is quite economical; but the good ones I’ve seen, so seldom are clean, and the clean ones so seldom are comical.”
― Monica Ferris, Darned if You Do

“Did you know it was from up here they got the word sitting duck? It comes because commercial hunters used to take a live wild duck and put a collar on it and fasten it to a stool—this is also where they got the expression stool pigeon, because they did the same thing with a wild dove—lots of folks couldn’t tell the difference between a pigeon and a dove. They’d put the duck out at the edge of a marsh an’ when the big flocks go over, the fastened-down duck would call and the others would come in for a landing and get shot. Or a dove stuck out in a field would call its friends to help. They used to send barrels full of ducks and pigeons and geese to Chicago restaurants.”
― Monica Ferris, Buttons and Bones

“but she was four years, three months, and sixty-one days old when she died.”
― Monica Ferris, Framed in Lace