Nancy Pickard > Quotes

“...in a county where romantic partners were as scarce as yaks.”
― Nancy Pickard, The Scent of Rain and Lightning

“İnsanların iyi niyetleri suistimal ediliyor.”
“Kim tarafından?”
“Biz tabii ki!Hasta insanların buraya gelip o aptalca hikayelere inanmalarına izin veriyoruz ve işleri onlar için daha kötü hale getiriyoruz.”
“İnsanların okudukları şeylere inanmalrınıengelleyen bir yasa henüz yok ,Abby.”
“Fakat dolandırmayı engelleyen var.”
― Nancy Pickard , The Virgin of Small Plains

“He'd been inside of a storm, all right. He'd been swept up in a tornado of sex and memory, naked regret and short-lived ecstasy. Now he felt tossed out of it onto the hard, prickly ground. He felt bruised and used.”
― Nancy Pickard, The Virgin of Small Plains

“Out of a still, clear day, the wind suddenly picked up.
It bowed the grass in his direction, unaccountably lifting his spirits and making him think that maybe she hadn't minded his devotion, after all.”
― Nancy Pickard, The Virgin of Small Plains

“He pointed to the newborn.'This way he'll have a home, he'll have parents, he'll have a brother.'
'And a rapist for a father.”
― Nancy Pickard, The Virgin of Small Plains

“He didn't try to explain ozone to her, or how raindrops hit rocks, releasing the fragrance of oils that plants had rubbed on them, or how spores in the ground give up their own earthy scent in the rain. He just took her out and let her sniff and sniff until she admitted that, yes, it smelled good outside after a thunderstorm.”
― Nancy Pickard, The Scent of Rain and Lightning

“I want that child around for the rest of its life to remind Tom what a fool he is.”
― Nancy Pickard, The Virgin of Small Plains

“Every history book, no matter how ostensibly objective, is basically lies filtered through bias and a certain amount of relative ignorance.”
― Nancy Pickard, Bum Steer

“Good ol' Rex, always the bridesmaid, never the bride.”
― Nancy Pickard, The Virgin of Small Plains

“...tall women of Swedish descent attract attention that's way out of proportion to our relative importance to the world.”
― Nancy Pickard, Bum Steer

“Life is short. If you have something to say, either spit it out or forget about it.”
― Nancy Pickard, The Scent of Rain and Lightning

“...Marshall Field's Department Store....I spent - in more ways than one - the afternoon shipping in the vast and famous old store downtown....And then I had them mail a catalog home, too, jus tin case I'd missed something.”
― Nancy Pickard, Bum Steer

“He didn't move back to allow me to walk by him, and so I had to brush heavily against him on my way out the door. I felt as if my body were metal to his magnet, and I had literally to pull away from him.”
― Nancy Pickard, Bum Steer

“His car....had the black-tinted windows I usually associated with south Florida or drug dealers. Or is that redundant?”
― Nancy Pickard, Bum Steer

“It had come as a relief when she had been forced to go into the hospital in Emporia, where she could be given drugs that made her sleep, sleep through an investigation that did not include her sons, sleep through the quiet departure of her older boy to another town, another college, and sleep through the funeral and burial of a beautiful girl who'd had a name, who'd had a family, who'd had a life.”
― Nancy Pickard, The Virgin of Small Plains