The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton Quotes

“Evil people must spread their evil everywhere.”
― Jane Smiley, The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton

“Northerners, even abolitionists, knew more about how and why to chop down the slavery tree than they ever knew what to do with its sour fruit.”
― Jane Smiley, The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton

“In truth Mr Jonas Silk was as niggardly as he was jealous, and my sister Beatrice had as much interest in Kansas as she did in the czar of all the Russias, and so my brother Mr. Horace Silk worked out his plans in a white heat of frustrated eagerness.”
― Jane Smiley, The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton

“It didn't occur to us. We had swum in the ocean of religion all our lives and not gotten wet.”
― jane smiley, The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton

“If you don't furnish your brain with what everyone knows, then it will furnish itself with what no one else knows!”
― Jane Smiley, The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton

“But he was sixty-two when I was, born, and the novelty of daughters had worn away long before.”
― Jane Smiley, The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton

“You don't make 'em trot for one thing and run for the other.”
― Jane Smiley, The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton

“We knew right off how to think of them but not precisely how to feel about them.”
― Jane Smiley, The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton