And I Shall Have Some Peace There Quotes

“SHE OF NOBODY ELSE'S BIDDING: That is who I am now--someone who has not done what anyone else said since July 2008, though not because I am either disobedient or a slacker.”
― Margaret Roach, And I Shall Have Some Peace There: Trading in the Fast Lane for My Own Dirt Road

“(If you think you want to live in the country, start by clearing a thicket of brambles, invasive woody vines, and choked, decaying trees, and then decide. This or its equivalent will basically become your life practice. There are always thorny bits in your path, always.) Back”
― Margaret Roach, And I Shall Have Some Peace There: Trading in the Fast Lane for My Own Dirt Road

“The country does not wait to do its wild things just because you have not pulled into the driveway yet; it doesn’t wait for Friday evenings, or cease on Sundays at five o’clock.”
― Margaret Roach, And I Shall Have Some Peace There: Trading in the Fast Lane for My Own Dirt Road

“Have you tried to force a washer, it’s well-named agitator and spin basket still whirling madly, to stop right now? Even turning off the power, even unplugging, does not do it; there is so much residual torque built up that it insists on taking its own time, and meantime taking you for the ride. One would risk the literal limb to intervene. Steamroller. A person could get crushed around here. Having been in perpetual motion for so many years, it hurts to sit still unless there are ample DVDs, and enough wine. It hurts. Heat-seeking missiles like a target, a to-do list, a mission plan. Get me Mission Control: when do we launch this puppy?”
― Margaret Roach, And I Shall Have Some Peace There: Trading in the Fast Lane for My Own Dirt Road

“HOW’M I DOING?” AS NEW YORK CITY MAYOR ED KOCH used to say. “You know how I always ask everybody how am I doing?” he is quoted in the 1981 book named for his most famous interrogative. “Well, today I asked myself, and the answer was, ‘Terrific.”
― Margaret Roach, And I Shall Have Some Peace There: Trading in the Fast Lane for My Own Dirt Road

“State naturalist John Burroughs, advice based on his own observations in the woods just across the Hudson River from here at the start of the twentieth century: The lesson which life repeats and constantly reinforces is “look under foot.” You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.”
― Margaret Roach, And I Shall Have Some Peace There: Trading in the Fast Lane for My Own Dirt Road

“I don’t think that there is anything that is really magical unless it has a terrifying quality, said the painter Andrew Wyeth.”
― Margaret Roach, And I Shall Have Some Peace There: Trading in the Fast Lane for My Own Dirt Road

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. —Mark Twain”
― Margaret Roach, And I Shall Have Some Peace There: Trading in the Fast Lane for My Own Dirt Road

“Forces bigger than myself have determined a different course these cataclysmic days. To hell in a handbasket, as Grandma liked to say, we were apparently meant to head instead. Tra-la. Hard”
― Margaret Roach, And I Shall Have Some Peace There: Trading in the Fast Lane for My Own Dirt Road