Rachel S. Neal > Quotes

“People protect themselves with whatever means available, not always drawing on what’s most beneficial or effective, or even sound in the eyes of others.”
― Rachel S. Neal, Sewing for the Insane

“Her perfect Cupid’s bow lips hissed in my ear. “Don’t get too close to that boy. He eats bugs.” She sneered at me over her shoulder as she joined the others.”
― Rachel S. Neal, Sewing for the Insane

“Yet they weren’t freed from death, despite signatures on papers ending the fight. Planes continued to disappear over foreign soil, ships sank in the Pacific waves, trucks swerved off roads, and infections traveled among the men with a final desperate attempt to prevent their homecoming.  A message from Western Union still made a mother’s heart go numb. And”
― Rachel S. Neal, Sewing for the Insane

“That’s people for you, Esther. Choosing what we know will only hurt us in the long run for a moment of satisfaction.”
― Rachel S. Neal, Sewing for the Insane

“My own emerging sense of hope was crushed beneath her words. If there really was a Lincoln Abraham, he wasn’t coming for Maple. She’d hung her dreams on a line made of nothing more than imagination.”
― Rachel S. Neal, Sewing for the Insane

“Benjamin Franklin invented the harmonica.” “It’s”
― Rachel S. Neal, Sewing for the Insane

“I knew it was a miracle Uncle Pete and Wilbur were alive, assuming the doctor spoke the truth. I hadn’t made much time in my life for praying but I did that afternoon, making a point to thank the Almighty Above in the Name of Jesus for sparing them.”
― Rachel S. Neal, Sewing for the Insane