Nothing Save the Bones Inside Her Quotes

“match.”
― Clayton Lindemuth, Nothing Save the Bones Inside Her

“Deet slid down from the bale to the barn floor. “You know Em, here’s what I think of, when I got time for puzzles. I don’t see how you can believe what’s in that black book you keep your nose in, and not believe in what’s around you every waking minute.”
― Clayton Lindemuth, Nothing Save the Bones Inside Her

“Marconi Macaroni.”
― Clayton Lindemuth, Nothing Save the Bones Inside Her

“This very morning she’d browsed her favorite chapter in Ephesians, which reminded her that the Lord had a plan for her life, with good works prepared like footsteps she should walk in. But the harder she sought direction, the more cagey the Lord seemed. The more tantalizingly distant and unfathomable. She couldn’t doubt what He’d said—but she did doubt what she’d heard out there in the praying field. Did He really promise that He was trustworthy and following Him would bring her closer? Because this wasn’t close at all.”
― Clayton Lindemuth, Nothing Save the Bones Inside Her

“The walnut tree told me when Emeline Margulies turned eighteen. Law-wise in Pennsylvania, a girl burns her ships at eighteen. Her daddy was dead and she was alone, so I bound her with spells, talk of blue spruce situated off the front porch, small-mouth bass jumping bugs at the lake, and how sunshine bounces from the water to the orchard and turns pear blossoms gold. She bought every word and wiggled close. I took her wrist and got my hand on her neck and I couldn’t think of nothing save the bones inside her.”
― Clayton Lindemuth, Nothing Save the Bones Inside Her

“The Lord could communicate through any number of channels, other believers, nonbelievers, even dreams, apparitions and visions.”
― Clayton Lindemuth, Nothing Save the Bones Inside Her