The Fields Quotes

“And what good did it do? Squirrel and other vermin reckoned you hid grain in the ground just to dare them could they find it and dig it out.”
― Conrad Richter, The Fields

“Never could Mathias give the right answer, but always had he an excuse for being wrong.

"I was just a thinkin'," he'd fend himself. "If I hadn't been a thinkin', I wouldn't a thought that way.”
― Conrad Richter, The Fields