A Year Down Yonder Quotes

“Anyone who thinks small towns are friendlier than big cities lives in a big city.”
― Richard Peck, A Year Down Yonder

“Grandma, how old is she?"
"Oh I don't know." Grandma said. "You'd have to cut off her head and count the rings in her neck.”
― Richard Peck, A Year Down Yonder

“If you're going to read minds, start with a simple one.”
― Richard Peck, A Year Down Yonder

“That meant I could come back whenever I could manage it. And she was telling me to go. She knew the decision was too big a load for me to carry by myself. She knew me through and through. She had eyes in the back of her heart.”
― Richard Peck, A Year Down Yonder

“She had eyes in the back of her heart.”
― Richard Peck, A Year Down Yonder

“At last she said, "Them Burdicks isn't worth the powder and shot to blow them up. They're like a pack of hound dogs. They'll chase livestock, suck eggs, and lick the skillet. And steal? They'd steal a hot stove and come back for the smoke.”
― Richard Peck, A Year Down Yonder

“Anybody who thinks small towns are friendlier than big cities lives in a big city.”
― Richard Peck, A Year Down Yonder

“A Seth Thomas steeple clock stood on a high shelf. When it struck ten, Grandma jerked awake. She looked around the room astonished. It was her belief that she never slept, not even in bed.”
― Richard Peck, A Year Down Yonder

“The trenches are all filled in, but the boys are still dying.'
Then I could read her thoughts and I knew what this day meant. Mrs. Abernathy's son could have been my dad.”
― Richard Peck, A Year Down Yonder

“I didn’t think Grandma’s house was haunted. What ghost would dare?”
― Richard Peck, A Year Down Yonder

“Did your late husband go to war?” “Only with me,” Grandma said, “and he lost every time.”
― Richard Peck, A Year Down Yonder

“Why not? It’s a better climate than New York,” said Grandma, who’d never been there. “It’s the healthiest spot in Illinois. We had to hang a man to start the graveyard.”
― Richard Peck, A Year Down Yonder

“At school we practiced for the Christmas program all month long. Miss Butler couldn't sing either, but she was a feisty director. . . . She took the Christmas program personally, as teachers do.”
― Richard Peck, A Year Down Yonder

“It doesn’t get cold anymore. The climate’s changed. When I was a girl, we had to walk in our sleep to keep from freezing to death.”
― Richard Peck, A Year Down Yonder

“She knew me through and through. She had eyes in the back of her heart.”
― Richard Peck, A Year Down Yonder

“I was too young to know how much a dangerous man interests a good woman.”
― Richard Peck, A Year Down Yonder

“The trenches are all filled in, but the boys are still dying.”
― Richard Peck, A Year Down Yonder