"My father said that Gram couldn't read maps worth a hill of beans."

"Trouble just naturally followed them like a filly trailing behind a mare." Choose two answers.

"Sometimes I am as ornery and stubborn as an old donkey."

"No swimming hole, no barn, no cows, no chickens, no pigs."

"Instead, a little white house with a miniature patch of Green Grass in front of it." When the G is used back to back that is called _____________.

"There was certainly a hog's belly fully of things to tell about her."

"All around the room, people were acting as if I had singlehandedly taken on a fire-breathing dragon."

"you could tell her own spine was not made of steel...."

"Mrs. Cadaver is as strong as an ox."

"With dark came whispers: rush, hurry, rush..."

"They looked like two sparkly black discs set into big, round sockets." (when she was talking about Ben's eyes)

"...being a mother is like trying to hold a wolf by its ears"

"....we left Wisconsin and drove on, eating up the road..."

"These roads are taking the poop out of me." (said Gramps)

"I thought he might have a few squirrels in the attic of his brain."

"There's nothing in this whole wide world that is better than a new person!"

"The water looked cool and clear."

"So I did, I did."

"I wondered about the mysterious messenger."

"He let me behave like a wild boar."

"She's in the fields, the air, the barn, the walls, the trees." (think...is she really there?) is anything compared?

"Sal, you're trying to catch fish in the air."

"The sun was beating down on us."

"You can't cage a person."

"You can't keep the birds of sadness from flying over your head, but you can keep them from nesting in your hair."