Tess

“There was a young lady from Gloucester
Who complained that her parents both bossed her,
So she ran off to Maine.
Did her parents complain?
Not at all -- they were glad to have lost her.”
― John Ciardi, The Hopeful Trout and Other Limericks

“I expect everyone in Boston has something like that ring, which is why I am glad I have never been to Boston.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, Six-Gun Snow White

“I'd have been queen of all England, but Massachusetts haunted me and wouldn't let me go.”
― C.F. Joyce

“New Englanders began the Revolution not to institute reforms and changes in the order of things, but to save the institutions and customs that already had become old and venerable with them; and were new only to a few stupid Englishmen a hundred and fifty years behind the times.”
― Edward Pearson Pressey, History of Montague; A Typical Puritan Town