An Undisturbed Peace Quotes

“I wonder,” he suggested to his wife, “if she is what happens to a people ripped from their roots and plunged, solitary, into an alien life. They are left adrift, belonging nowhere within touch or smell or taste of their true blood, whatever blood that may be, and this, you must agree, is a tragedy.”
― Mary Glickman, An Undisturbed Peace

“But life is odd, life is curious. It always answers our prayers but often in ways we never expect.”
― Mary Glickman, An Undisturbed Peace

“This is the way of man. To seek distraction in the petty and evade the significant.”
― Mary Glickman, An Undisturbed Peace

“This country, he thought. So rich it opens one’s eyes to boundless ambition and blinds them to the misfortunes of others.”
― Mary Glickman, An Undisturbed Peace

“God help America on the day comin’ when she must pay for her sins.”
― Mary Glickman, An Undisturbed Peace

“Twenty years ago, you would have killed another man, or yourself, out of love for me. I’m not lying when I say both things happened. Twenty years ago.” “Is that why you live alone here? Away from your people?” Her eyes were guarded as he gathered her in, pulling her under the deerskin blanket with him. She put a hand through his tangle of black curls and tugged at the back of his head, then rode her hand slowly around his neck to the under part of his beard. “Yes, my bear. It is exactly why.”
― Mary Glickman, An Undisturbed Peace