The Harvey Girls Quotes

“It’s not the worst thing in the world. Getting right back in the saddle and all that.”
― Juliette Fay, The Harvey Girls

“Though they had been born worlds apart, they both knew a mean-spirited fool when they saw one.”
― Juliette Fay, The Harvey Girls

“Will would not strike without provocation; she was somehow certain of this. She felt strangely, unaccountably, undeniably… safe.”
― Juliette Fay, The Harvey Girls

“maybe one of the less busy ones, like Zion.”
― Juliette Fay, The Harvey Girls

“Finally there was an adult in the house.”
― Juliette Fay, The Harvey Girls

“None of us was born in the shoes we’re standing in,” replied Will.”
― Juliette Fay, The Harvey Girls

“Alva often left notes about teeth grinding or what she referred to as “ghostly moans.” Charlotte had half a mind to hide some chains under her bed and rattle them in the wee hours.”
― Juliette Fay, The Harvey Girls

“No woman should ever take a man who isn’t kind.”
― Juliette Fay, The Harvey Girls

“she knew the way a man was supposed to touch a woman. With hope. With reverence.”
― Juliette Fay, The Harvey Girls

“with the tenderness her father showed her mother when they thought no one saw.”
― Juliette Fay, The Harvey Girls

“She felt herself drifting toward Leif like a little boat in the creek beneath them, being carried along without an ounce of effort. Floating.”
― Juliette Fay, The Harvey Girls

“Thousands of baby boys from these matches were named Fred or Harvey.”
― Juliette Fay, The Harvey Girls

“It’s what all conquerors do. They take the land and make you speak their language, and use their customs, and worship their god. Then you don’t exist anymore, so you are no longer a problem.”
― Juliette Fay, The Harvey Girls

“Real love required no grand gestures, she realized, only gentle constancy.”
― Juliette Fay, The Harvey Girls