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Out on a Limb: A Smoky Mountain Mystery QUOTES

Out on a Limb: A Smoky Mountain Mystery QUOTES

1 " To be a full-blooded hillbilly was to be a living koan. Half of you wanted to be dignified and half of you couldn’t tolerate any restraint. You could see it in the regional art and hear it in the music. Wood carving with chainsaws. Cloggers who danced up a storm with the lower half of their bodies, but held the upper half perfectly still and stared off into the distance stone-faced. Or a group of bluegrass musicians who’d be playing the most raucous tunes imaginable, looking around at each other with bemused expressions that seemed to say where’s all that racket comin from?

Phoebe believed that nearly all the adult males everywhere were pretty much the same way. Most of them could manage to keep the top half of themselves under a semblance of control, but the bottom half tended to run wild. As she continued to descend the trail she couldn’t help but think that most men were mentally ill below the waist. "

― Carolyn Jourdan , Out on a Limb: A Smoky Mountain Mystery

2 " There iddn’t no devil,” Nerve said. “Not really. At least not on the outside of us. He’s in us. Just like the Lord Himself can’t work ‘cept through our hands, neither can the devil.” 

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― Carolyn Jourdan , Out on a Limb: A Smoky Mountain Mystery

3 " and carpeting them with moss. "

― Carolyn Jourdan , Out on a Limb: A Smoky Mountain Mystery

4 " The simplest truth is that we’re all killing ourselves with our temperament. A person will tend toward being bossy, or high-strung, or depressed, or listless. And this has predictable physical consequences. If we don’t learn to become aware of our moods and take steps to moderate them, we’ll eventually die from our habits. This is where heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and autoimmune problems come from. "

― Carolyn Jourdan , Out on a Limb: A Smoky Mountain Mystery

5 " Spikenard was the essential oil that Mary Magdalene poured over Jesus’s head in the incident that set Judas off. "

― Carolyn Jourdan , Out on a Limb: A Smoky Mountain Mystery

6 " Life could be such an adventure if you could just manage to stay optimistic. "

― Carolyn Jourdan , Out on a Limb: A Smoky Mountain Mystery

7 " This one thing, wait with me, was all Christ had asked the disciples to do for Him the night before He died, but even the best men in the whole world had let Him down. Of course they’d all been men. The women around Him never let Him down. The women were always first in and last out, and seemed to have the only understanding of what was going on at all the crucial moments, but precious few bible scholars ever seemed to notice that. "

― Carolyn Jourdan , Out on a Limb: A Smoky Mountain Mystery