Prayers for Sale Quotes

“When it's raining pudding, hold up your bowl.”
― Sandra Dallas, Prayers for Sale

“Hennie replies to, How are you doing? 'I'm deteriorating at a normal rate.”
― Sandra Dallas, Prayers for Sale

“Don't mind her. She keeps her nose so high in the air, she's liable to drown in a good rainstorm.”
― Sandra Dallas, Prayers for Sale

“She wasn't soft, but she never saw the sense of a living thing dying such a cruel death just for some woman's vanity. Still, she thought, a fur coat when the wind blew down off the Tenmile Range would feel mighty good. Maybe they made fur coats out of foxes that died of old age.”
― Sandra Dallas, Prayers for Sale

“A quilt circle's like a crazy quilt. You got all kinds in it. Some members are the big pieces of velvet or brocade, show-offish, while others are bitty scraps of used goods, hoping you don't notice them. But without each and every one, the quilt would fall apart. There's big and small, old and new, fancy and plain in a quilt circle. Some you like better than the others. We have our differences, and Monalisa is a trial, but it's a surprise how we all come together over the quilt frame, even Monalisa. We're as thick as a lettuce bed.”
― Sandra Dallas, Prayers for Sale

“She remembered how Billy always picked the first apple blossoms and put them into a tin cup for her. They made the house smell like springtime. Billy said apple trees were a double blessing, first for the blossoms and then the apples.”
― Sandra Dallas, Prayers for Sale

“Stories were a living thing. They changed to suit the teller or the times.”
― Sandra Dallas, Prayers for Sale

“She wasn't any bigger than a minute and had hair like wild gold, and she was always merry as a marriage bell.”
― Sandra Dallas, Prayers for Sale

“Quilts are like lives. They’re made up of a lot of little pieces,” Nit said.”
― Sandra Dallas, Prayers for Sale