A Hand Reached Down to Guide Me Quotes

“You’re right,” I said. “It’s not up there with Neil Diamond at the Mid-Hudson Civic Center. I can’t believe this is my life.” “Then you need to do something about it,” he said. “So you don’t think that if I whine loud enough, God will hear me?” “It hasn’t worked so far.” “I’m going to pretend you didn’t say that,” I said.”
― David Gates, A Hand Reached Down to Guide Me: Stories and a novella