“Rumors alone can cause his family grief. It just isn't fair to compromise a person's reputation.”

“According to the calendar, it's spring. So why am I still freezing?Because your blood has thinned over winter. It'll take a while before you're no longer a freeze-baby”

“Getting too interested in the English way of life won't help you land a permanent job.”

“Finding out how the rest of the world lives is a normal part of rumschpringe. I didn't think it was up to my father-or my bishop-to squash that kind of curiosity.”

“I'm not a little sheep who's wandered from her ewe. I am a grown woman!”

“Writer's block? I've heard of this. This is when a writer cannot write, yes? Then that person isn't a writer anymore. I'm sorry, but the job is getting up in the fucking morning and writing for a living.”

“A dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it.”