Too Much Lip Quotes

“Into the river that was about to be stolen away again, as it always had been since Captain James Nunne Esq. first rode up with his troopers, one two three, crying I’ll have that, and that, oh, and that too, while I’m at it.”
― Melissa Lucashenko, Too Much Lip

“And since when did going to jail make somebody a villain, for Christ's sake? But that was dugai logic for ya. Steal a million acres and you're a pioneer hero with a brass statue in the council chambers, but pinch a car or a mobile phone and you're some kind of fucking monster.”
― Melissa Lucashenko, Too Much Lip

“Her native church was built right here of rock and sand and feather and bark and moss.”
― Melissa Lucashenko, Too Much Lip

“It seemed there had been a lot of hard men in Pop's life. Hard men with stone hearts, bent on turning the country into their own clenched fists.”
― Melissa Lucashenko, Too Much Lip

“Granny Ava was the link: the last heathen of the family to speak the lingo fluently, before the Church waltzed in and jammed the Lord's Prayer in Granny Ruth's twelve-year-old mouth instead.”
― Melissa Lucashenko, Too Much Lip