Girl Waits with Gun Quotes

“It didn’t help that Norma had all the girlish charm of a boulder”
― Amy Stewart, Girl Waits with Gun

“Never had a larger committee been convened to make a decision about the purchase of mustard powder and the replacement of a claw hammer whose handle had split from age and misuse.”
― Amy Stewart, Girl Waits With Gun

“give her one silent gift from a mother she didn’t know she had—it would be this: the realization that we have to be a part of the world in which we live. We don’t scurry away when we’re in trouble, or when someone else is. We don’t run and hide.”
― Amy Stewart, Girl Waits with Gun

“Nobody likes my peas,” I said. “But we like having you do them,” she said.”
― Amy Stewart, Girl Waits With Gun

“Everyone with a camera and a set of draperies runs a portrait studio. Miss”
― Amy Stewart, Girl Waits with Gun

“What I didn’t say to Francis was that when Lucy grabbed me on the street in Paterson that day, I couldn’t understand how anyone would take hold of a stranger and pour out their troubles. But now I realized that people did it all the time. They called for help. And some people would answer, out of a sense of duty and a sense of belonging to the world around them.”
― Amy Stewart, Girl Waits With Gun

“If I could give something to Fleurette—if I could give her one silent gift from a mother she didn’t know she had—it would be this: the realization that we have to be a part of the world in which we live. We don’t scurry away when we’re in trouble, or when someone else is. We don’t run and hide.”
― Amy Stewart, Girl Waits With Gun

“When I allowed myself to think about the brevity of the time ahead of me, and the futility of spending any more of it on cooking and mending and gardening, it frightened me so much that I almost couldn’t breathe.”
― Amy Stewart, Girl Waits With Gun

“we have to be a part of the world in which we live. We don’t scurry away when we’re in trouble, or when someone else is. We don’t run and hide.”
― Amy Stewart, Girl Waits With Gun

“What I didn't say to Francis was that when Lucy grabbed me on the street in Paterson that day, I couldn't understand how anyone would take hold of a stranger and pour out their troubles. But now I realized that people did it all the time. They called for help. And some people would answer[.]”
― Amy Stewart, Girl Waits with Gun

“If I could give something to Fleurette⁠—if I could give her one silent gift from a mother she didn't know she had⁠—it would be this: the realization that we have to be a part of the world in which we live. We don't scurry away when we're in trouble, or when someone else is. We don't run and hide.”
― Amy Stewart, Girl Waits with Gun

“and Bessie for offering. But we’ve done just fine standing up for”
― Amy Stewart, Girl Waits with Gun

“a driveway and a garage built more for automobiles”
― Amy Stewart, Girl Waits with Gun

“It had survived a fire that burned most of the city when Fleurette was a little girl, and traces of black soot were still lodged in the crevices of its scrollwork, giving it the appearance of a building that had been drawn in artist’s charcoal.”
― Amy Stewart, Girl Waits with Gun