Jess Peterson

“Certainly,' said his mother, 'but first I want to know about the accident with your bicycle.'
Well,' Phillip said, 'if you wanta really know. I was sitting in the basket of my bike ridin' down Mission Hill backwards singing 'Polly Wolly Doodle' and I saw the bread truck comin' and I guess I didn't turn soon enough and I ran into the Wallaces' iron fence and I caught my shoe on the pedal and my pants on a picket and I hit my eye on the handlebars and I don't know what else happened. But, boy, you should have heard the kids and that ole breadman laugh!”
― Betty MacDonald, Hello, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle

“I'll do it because I want to but not because you tell me to!”
― Betty MacDonald, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle

“I can spot trouble from a mile away except when it comes with curves.”
― Ronie Kendig, Storm Rising

“There’s nothing as cozy as a piece of candy and a book.”
― Betty MacDonald, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's Magic