Merry Northup

“Yes, yes sir—routine is worry’s sly assassin.”
― Leif Enger, Peace Like a River

“Again I insist upon the point. The whole of the sexual revolution has been a colossal failure, and has wrought untold human misery. The move for same-sex pseudogamy is inextricable from that revolution; it is grafted upon it and cannot survive or even appear to make sense without it. We cannot have a good nation unless we are a good people. We cannot be a good people when we throw contempt upon manhood and womanhood and the virtue that honors their beauty and their being for one another; it is like asking for clean sleaze, or cold love.”
― Anthony Esolen, Defending Marriage: Twelve Arguments for Sanity

“A cowboy doesn't ask for much, that's my observation. A flashy ride, a pretty girl, momentary glory...”
― Leif Enger, So Brave, Young, and Handsome

“Here is a quick and generally reliable rule to follow. If people have always said it, it is probably true; it is the distilled wisdom of the ages. If people have not always said it, but everybody is saying it now, it is probably a lie; it is the concentrated madness of the moment. People”
― Anthony M. Esolen, Out of the Ashes: Rebuilding American Culture