Holy Land Quotes

“You are mistaken if you consider this a criticism, either of my father or the houses.”
― D.J. Waldie, Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir

“From one perspective or another, all our lives are narrow. Only when lives are placed side by side do they seem larger.”
― D.J. Waldie, Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir

“At my grade school, the Sisters of St. Joseph made me hate Communists, then intolerance, and finally everything that could break the charmed pattern of our lives.”
― D.J. Waldie, Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir

“In the suburbs, a manageable life depends on a compact among neighbors. The unspoken agreement is an honest hypocrisy.”
― D.J. Waldie, Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir

“Where I live is one of the places where suburban stories were first mass-produced. They were stories then for displaced Okies and Arkies, Jews who knew the pain of exclusion, Catholics who thought they did, and anyone white with a steady job.”
― D.J. Waldie, Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir