Brandi

“In fact, for all of us it is this open-hearted affirmation that my life is the same as yours that moves us forward much faster than when we believe that others' lives are orderly and peaceful and only ours is chaotic and full of bumps.”
― Virginia H. Pearce, A Heart Like His: Making Space for God's Love in Your Life

“Literature is a function of temperament, and thank God there are many kinds of temperament and therefore many kinds of literature. I can speak only for my own, and after considerable acquaintance I have determined that my temperament is quiet, recessive, skeptical, and watchful. I don't like big noisy scenes, in fiction or in life. I avoid riots and mass meetings. It would embarrass me to chase fire engines. I have a hard enough time making sense out of what my life hands me, without going out to hunt for more exciting events.”
― Wallace Stegner, Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs: Living and Writing in the West

“For somehow, against probability, some sort of indigenous, recognizable culture has been growing on western ranches and in western towns and even in western cities. It is the product not of the boomers but of the stickers, not of those who pillage and run but of those who settle, and love the life they have made and the place they have made it in.”
― Wallace Stegner, Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs: Living and Writing in the West

“Westerners live outdoors more than people elsewhere because outdoors is mainly what they've got.”
― Wallace Stegner, Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs: Living and Writing in the West