Joy Shak

“I believe that most small towns wear two faces: a public one comprised of verifiable facts involving historical timelines, demographics, matters of economy and geography; and a hidden, considerably more private face formed by a fragile spiderweb of stories, memories, rumors, and secrets passed down from generation to generation, whispered by those who know the town best.”
― Richard Chizmar, Chasing the Boogeyman

“IF MENOPAUSE WERE ON YELP it would have one star.”
― Jennifer Gunter, The Menopause Manifesto: Own Your Health with Facts and Feminism

“A wall is the defense of a country that values inaction. But a wall imprisons the people of a country as much as it protects them.”
― Christopher Moore, Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal

“During the darkest days, a saying took hold in Kansas: “there is no god west of Salina.”
― Caroline Fraser, Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder