26 Quotes by Mary Connealy

Red leaned down so his nose almost touched hers and bellowed, “You should be worried! You’re losing all of them! You are going to mind me, woman!

The second he left, Cassie rushed to Red’s side. “I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to start all that. I didn’t mean to be so bad-mannered. I’m the cause of – ” Red leaned down and kissed her. He didn’t kiss her for long, but she quit talking to try and catch up with the kissing. He pulled away and said flatly, “Don’t go anywhere alone, Cassie.” He looked up and said to Seth, “You see she minds me, Seth. You have to watch her every second. She’s a wily little thing.

She’d learned so many ways to be modest, it had become a source of pride.

The pain was on the surface, so it took all his will to reach upward. But maybe that’s what God asked of man. To reach upward even when it’s hard.

Don’t you think you should lie down?” Red asked, hacking at the ham just for something to do. “Muriel says I should stay up for as long as possible. She said I’ll be so sick of lying in bed by the end that I’ll want these first few hours back.” “Hours?” Red stopped slicing and looked sideways at her. “How many hours?” “Muriel said her first child made his appearance about twenty-four hours after the first pains.” “Twenty-four hours!” Red yelled.

You are one disobedient woman. All this niceness is a big disappointment to a man who likes sass.” “I promise I’ll try to be meaner,” Cassie said demurely. Red laughed and tapped her on the tip of her nose. “You do that.

When the good Lord put a burden on his heart, he listened.

I’ve seen too much of the beauty of the Lord’s creation to ever doubt the Almighty.

A fist, delicate and lily white, punched out of the snow and smacked Daniel in the nose. He jerked backward, his feet slipped, and he landed on his backside. He looked at the hole in the snow made by the fist and saw Grace’s cherry-red nose poking out of the snowdrift. He suspected his nose was now the same color, and not because of the cold. “Well, it’s certainly nice to see you boys.” Grace smiled and pulled her nose back out of sight.