Fifty Acres and a Poodle Quotes

“Dreams are matters of the heart, things that pull you along as if they have hooked you someplace deep inside.”
― Jeanne Marie Laskas, Fifty Acres and a Poodle: A Story of Love, Livestock, and Finding Myself on a Farm

“Chaos, I think, is youth. Youth at any age. Because as long as you have chaos, you are free of responsibility. When you are in chaos, when you don't know what's going on, when you're an ignorant dreamer...when you're floating through space like that, you aren't supposed to get anything right, you aren't supposed to make sense, you're supposed to be...amused,,,and aware. It can't go on. Not unless you choose that life. A life of never settling down, never making a claim on who you are, who you love... Once you make those claims you become accountable. You have to get to work...Dreams end. That's one thing I'm discovering.”
― Jeanne Marie Laskas, Fifty Acres and a Poodle: A Story of Love, Livestock, and Finding Myself on a Farm

“And I don't think anybody ever gets over loss. I think you get through it. You let it get through you.”
― Jeanne Marie Laskas, Fifty Acres and a Poodle: A Story of Love, Livestock, and Finding Myself on a Farm

“Lately, in this city I love, this neighborhood I love, all I seem to notice are the intrusions. Hot Air. Reeking garbage. Lunatic neighbors...I am inventing filters. Air filters. Stinking garbage filters. Lunatic-neighbor filters... Sometimes I imagine plugging a big air conditioner to the front of my head so I can block the rest of the world out. That's not right.”
― Jeanne Marie Laskas, Fifty Acres and a Poodle: A Story of Love, Livestock, and Finding Myself on a Farm

“The neighbor's flock has taken advantage of the chaos, and I think that's pretty smart.”
― Jeanne Marie Laskas, Fifty Acres and a Poodle: A Story of Love, Livestock, and Finding Myself on a Farm

“Solitude is a luxury for the lucky. For people who don’t have sick cats and lost ladybugs and very possibly dying loved ones to worry about. For people who don’t have to worry about getting their hands dirty with the everyday goo of ordinary suffering.”
― Jeanne Marie Laskas, Fifty Acres and A Poodle: A Story of Love, Livestock, and Finding Myself on A Farm

“long braids, used Ivory soap, and liked to stencil her walls with”
― Jeanne Marie Laskas, Fifty Acres and A Poodle: A Story of Love, Livestock, and Finding Myself on A Farm