“I have plans for my life and they don't include taking time out to break my back busting virgin sod with a flimsy plow.”

“Just thinking about January being in that shack all alone made him swell up fit to bust his britches.”

“How could he convince her to join him and hitch her buggy to a star when she was bound and determined to hitch it to a sodbuster's plow?”

“Don't you ever save me again. Do you hear me, you hotheaded little incendiary? Don't help me, rescue me, offer me succor, or do me a favor. Do you understand, you nihilistic dynamitard! Don't you dare ever save me again!”

“January worked harder than a stump-tailed cow during fly time...”

“She was full of flaws which with time would evolve into full-blown personality defects.”

“This time he jerked the appendage from her soft lap and tucked it under his leg, Indian fashion.”