“We don’t need to connect. The prairie landscape isolates us from each other as well as from our history.”
Kathleen Norris
Submitted by Quonation |Category: History
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“We hold on to hopes for next year every year in western Dakota: hoping that droughts will end; hoping that our crops won’t be hailed out in the few rainstorms that come; hoping that it won’t be too windy on the day we harvest, blowing away five bushels an acre; hoping … that if we get a fair crop, we’ll be able to get a fair price for it. Sometimes survival is the only blessing that the terrifying angel of the Plains bestows.”
Kathleen Norris
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Hope
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“The Plains are not forgiving. Anything that is shallow–the easy optimism of a homesteader; the false hope that denies geography,climate, history; the tree whose roots don’t reach ground water–will dry up and blow away.”
Kathleen Norris
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Hope
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“A good story is one that isn’t demanding, that proceeds from A to B, and above all doesn’t remind us of the bad times, the cardboard patches we used to wear in our shoes, the failed farms, the way people you love just up and die. It tells us instead that hard work and perseverance can overcome all obstacles; it tells lie after lie, and the happy ending is the happiest lie of all.”
Kathleen Norris
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Happiness
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“There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.”
Kathleen Norris
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Life
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“In spite of the cost of living, it’s still popular.”
Kathleen Norris
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
