"One day I would have all the books in the world, shelves and shelves of them. I would live my life in a tower of books. I would read all day long and eat peaches. And if any young knights in armor dared to come calling on their white chargers and plead with me to let down my hair, I would pelt them with peach pits until they went home."
— Jacqueline Kelly

"Ahhh. Bed, book, kitten, sandwich. All one needed in life, really."
— Jacqueline Kelly (The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate)

"But my mother's life was a never-ending round of maintenance. Not one single thing did she ever achieve but that it had to be done all over again, one day or one week or one season later. Oh, the monotony."
— Jacqueline Kelly

"By 1899, we had learned to tame the darkness but not the Texas heat."
— Jacqueline Kelly

"My grandfather had given me Mr. Darwin's book to read. He had given me the possibility of a different kind of life. but none of it mattered. Instead there was The Science of Housewifery for me. I was blind; I was pathetic. The century was about to change, but my own little life would not change with it."
— Jacqueline Kelly

"One day I would have all the books in the world, shelves and shelves of them. I would live my life in a tower of books. I would read all day long and eat peaches. And if any young knights in armor dared to come calling on their white chargers and plead with me to let down my hair, I would pelt them with peach pits until they went home."
— Jacqueline Kelly