Jessica

“The two worst things ever invented was air-conditioning and television. First, the air-conditioning made it so folks didn’t want to go out of doors no more. And since they was all cooped up inside their cold houses, they needed something to do, so some other feller invented television. Now, you tell me one good thing ever come from them two contraptions.” He paused. “You can’t, can you?”
― Pamela Duncan, Moon Women

“Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in Thy sight, O Lord, my rock and my redeemer.” She reread the passage three times, then closed her Bible and her eyes. “Oh,”
― Charlene Ann Baumbich, Dearest Dorothy, Slow Down, You're Wearing Us Out!: Welcome to Partonville: Book Two

“No man ever stood the lower in my estimation for having a patch in his clothes: yet I am sure that there is greater anxiety, commonly, to have fashionable, or at least clean and unpatched clothes, than to have a sound conscience.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

“That’s why I keep my Bible cracked open every day. I figure there’s one place I can go to find out what’s the right fight and what’s the wrong, and if I can keep myself sharp about those sorts of things I’ll have good instinct about when to let that fighter out and when to cage her up.”
― Jennifer Erin Valent, Magnolia Spring