Between Heaven and Texas Quotes

“it is impossible to separate the present and future from the history that precedes it.”
― Marie Bostwick, Between Heaven and Texas

“The residents of Too Much, patriots all, were all for cutting wasteful government spending, as long as the waste in question was cut out of somebody else’s community, and it didn’t take them very long to make this clear to the young lawmaker.”
― Marie Bostwick, Between Heaven and Texas

“every baby was perfect, put on the planet for some good purpose, if only people would give them a chance to prove it. If the mother loved the baby, everything would work out some way or other.”
― Marie Bostwick, Between Heaven and Texas

“Roberta had been a nurse for longer than Mary Dell had been alive. In that time, she had witnessed a hundred times more joy and sorrow than the average person saw in a lifetime. Sometimes it was hard to watch. Sometimes, driving home to go to bed at the hour most people were just getting up, she cried quiet tears for her patients and their families.”
― Marie Bostwick, Between Heaven and Texas

“The biggest hurdle that people with Down syndrome face isn’t the syndrome itself but the ignorance of others. The minute you leave here and for the rest of his life, Howard is going to run into people who will tell you what he can’t do.”
― Marie Bostwick, Between Heaven and Texas

“and started “speaking the truth in love,” which, as far as Mary Dell was concerned, was just another word for lecturing,”
― Marie Bostwick, Between Heaven and Texas

“he prayed to the God he’d always believed in but had spent precious little time talking with.”
― Marie Bostwick, Between Heaven and Texas

“That man is so low you can’t put a rug under him.” “His”
― Marie Bostwick, Between Heaven and Texas