Part 2
Significant Sentences from Book One - the Genesis

• "So Noah cursed all Ham's children to be slaves for ever and ever. That's how come them to turn out black." Ruth May, page 20.
• "Leah and Adah are in between and they're twins, so maybe they are one person but I think two, because Leah runs everywhere and climbs trees, but Adah can't, she is bad on one whole side and doesn't talk because she is brain-damaged and also hates us all." Ruth May, pg 21.
• "He is reliable in the following way: if they say he is coming on Monday, it will be Tuesday Friday or not at all." Adah, pg 33.
• "It is true I do not speak as well as I can think. But that is true of most people, as nearly as I can tell." Adah, pg 34. 
• "He must have lacked faith in mankind's follow through capabilities, on the day He created flowers."  Leah, pg 38.
• "... days and months do not matter one way or another to people in this village. They don't know Sunday from Tuesday or Friday or the twelfth of Never! They just count to five, have their market day and start over." Rachel, pg 45.
• "In some ways they are as strict you might as well have a Communist for your parents, but when it comes to something you really wish they'd notice, oh, well! Then parental laxity is the rule of the day." Rachel, pg 48.
• "Why, Nathan, here they have to use their bodies like we use things at home - like your clothes or your garden tools or something. Where you'd be wearing out the knees of your trousers, sir, they just have to go ahead and wear out their knees!" said Mama. Ruth May, pg 53.
• "Sending a girl to college is like pouring water in your shoes" he (Father) still loves to say that. Adah, pg 56.
• "My father wears his faith like the bronze breastplate of God's foot soldier, while our mother is more like a good cloth coat with a secondhand fit." Leah, pg 68.
• "Our village was blessed for weeks with the smell of putrefaction. Instead of abundance it was a holiday of waste." Adah, pg 70.
• "She (Rachel) is the most dramatic member of the family, and the worst actress, which in out family is a crucial skill." Adah, pg 75.
• "If God had amused himself inventing the lilies of the field, he surely knocked His own socks off with he African parasites." Adah, pg 76.
• "That he just proposed to sit up there and consign us to hardships one right after another? Certainly it wasn't my place to scrutinize God's great plan, but what about the balancing scales of justice?" Leah, pg 78.