Brittanie Hendrick’s Reviews > Sarah's Quilt > Status Update

After a spell, he said, "what you going to do?" I looked right at his eyes and said," Keep going. All I can do. Living is getting knocked down time and again, then standing up time and again, and once more. It's easy to act honorable when things are coming along and all your pastures are green. Plenty difficult when the ground has dried and burned and people have connived to take even that from you."

It is the best time of all that blessed few minutes before sunrise. A woman can have some time utterly to herself, without someone needing her. The night animals go to their holes and the dove and quail are still asleep. Men with fields to plow and miles to ride are still deep in sleep. It is a time to take out a woman's cares and tend them, to uncover the aches and dust them off gently with affection and tenderness

This book makes me want to cozy up with a cup of warm tea, and appreciate the ease of my life in the 21st century.

Hard times on the western frontier.
"I sat hard on the kitchen chair. We'd wasted our last drops of clean water on bathing, and then put it on the garden and under the shade trees. My throat felt like cotton. My tongue was parched. The thought of having no water made me long for it all the more."