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A Year Down Yonder (A Long Way from Chicago, #2) QUOTES

A Year Down Yonder (A Long Way from Chicago, #2) QUOTES

1 " Anybody who thinks small towns are friendlier than big cities lives in a big city. "

― Richard Peck , A Year Down Yonder (A Long Way from Chicago, #2)

2 " Anyone who thinks small towns are friendlier than big cities lives in a big city. "

― Richard Peck , A Year Down Yonder (A Long Way from Chicago, #2)

3 " If you're going to read minds, start with a simple one. "

― Richard Peck , A Year Down Yonder (A Long Way from Chicago, #2)

4 " That meant I could come back whenever I could manage it. And she was telling me to go. She knew the decision was too big a load for me to carry by myself. She knew me through and through. She had eyes in the back of her heart. "

― Richard Peck , A Year Down Yonder (A Long Way from Chicago, #2)

5 " At last she said, "Them Burdicks isn't worth the powder and shot to blow them up. They're like a pack of hound dogs. They'll chase livestock, suck eggs, and lick the skillet. And steal? They'd steal a hot stove and come back for the smoke. "

― Richard Peck , A Year Down Yonder (A Long Way from Chicago, #2)

6 " She had eyes in the back of her heart. "

― Richard Peck , A Year Down Yonder (A Long Way from Chicago, #2)

7 " A Seth Thomas steeple clock stood on a high shelf. When it struck ten, Grandma jerked awake. She looked around the room astonished. It was her belief that she never slept, not even in bed. "

― Richard Peck , A Year Down Yonder (A Long Way from Chicago, #2)

8 " At school we practiced for the Christmas program all month long. Miss Butler couldn't sing either, but she was a feisty director. . . . She took the Christmas program personally, as teachers do. "

― Richard Peck , A Year Down Yonder (A Long Way from Chicago, #2)

9 " Grandma, how old is she?"
"Oh I don't know." Grandma said. "You'd have to cut off her head and count the rings in her neck. "

― Richard Peck , A Year Down Yonder (A Long Way from Chicago, #2)

10 " The trenches are all filled in, but the boys are still dying.'
Then I could read her thoughts and I knew what this day meant. Mrs. Abernathy's son could have been my dad. "

― Richard Peck , A Year Down Yonder (A Long Way from Chicago, #2)

11 " The trenches are all filled in, but the boys are still dying. "

― Richard Peck , A Year Down Yonder (A Long Way from Chicago, #2)

12 " I was too young to know how much a dangerous man interests a good woman. "

― Richard Peck , A Year Down Yonder (A Long Way from Chicago, #2)