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The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (The Herdmans #1) QUOTES

The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (The Herdmans #1) QUOTES

1 " I've got the baby here," Imogene barked at the Wise Men. "Don touch him! I named him Jesus. "

― Barbara Robinson , The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (The Herdmans #1)

2 " They looked like the people you see on the six o’clock news—refugees, sent to wait in some strange ugly place, with all their boxes and sacks around them. It suddenly occurred to me that this was just the way it must have been for the real Holy Family, stuck away in a barn by people who didn’t much care what happened to them. They couldn’t have been very neat and tidy either, but more like this Mary and Joseph "

― Barbara Robinson , The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (The Herdmans #1)

3 " The Herdmans were absolutely the worst kids in the history of the world. They lied and stole and smoked cigars (even the girls) and talked dirty and hit little kids and cussed their teachers and took the name of the Lord in vain and set fire to Fred Shoemaker’s old broken-down toolhouse. "

― Barbara Robinson , The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (The Herdmans #1)

4 " I happened to look at Imogene and I almost dropped by hymn book on a baby angel.
Everyone had been waiting all this time for the Herdmans to do something absolutely unexpected. And sure enough, that was what happened.
Imogene Herdman was crying.
In the candlelight her face was all shiny with tears and she didn't even bother to wipe them away. She just sat there-awful old Imogene-in her crookedy veil, crying and crying and crying.
Well. It was the best Christmas pageant we ever had. "

― Barbara Robinson , The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (The Herdmans #1)

5 " cigars "

― Barbara Robinson , The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (The Herdmans #1)