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Laura Ingalls Wilder Quote: “Beyond them the darkness was like a mist thickening over a flat, white world. Stars twinkled far away around part of its rim. Before him, the black storm climbed rapidly up the sky and in silence destroyed the stars.”

151. “Beyond them the darkness was like a mist thickening over a flat, white world. Stars twinkled far away around part of its rim. Before him, the black storm climbed rapidly up the sky and in silence destroyed the stars.”

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

Laura Ingalls Wilder Quote: “Haste makes waste, but a lazy man’d rather get his work done fast than do it himself... all it saves is time, son. And what good is time, with nothing to do? You want to sit and twiddle your thumbs, all these stormy winter days?”

152. “Haste makes waste, but a lazy man’d rather get his work done fast than do it himself... all it saves is time, son. And what good is time, with nothing to do? You want to sit and twiddle your thumbs, all these stormy winter days?”

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

Laura Ingalls Wilder Quote: “At first the splashes of cream showed thick and smooth around the little hole.”

153. “At first the splashes of cream showed thick and smooth around the little hole.”

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

Laura Ingalls Wilder Quote: “Mary was too scared to move. Laura was too scared to stand still.”

154. “Mary was too scared to move. Laura was too scared to stand still.”

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Laura Ingalls Wilder Quote: “Almanzo knew that in the whole world there was nothing so beautiful, so fascinating, as beautiful horses. When he thought that it would be years and years before he could have a little colt to teach and take care of, he could hardly bear it.”

155. “Almanzo knew that in the whole world there was nothing so beautiful, so fascinating, as beautiful horses. When he thought that it would be years and years before he could have a little colt to teach and take care of, he could hardly bear it.”

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

Laura Ingalls Wilder Quote: “The road goes up hill and down, and it is rutted and dusty and stony but every turn of the wheels changes our view of the woods and the hills. The sky seems lower here, and it is the softest blue. The distances and the valleys are blue whenever you can see them. It is a drowsy country that makes you feel wide awake and alive but somehow contented.”

156. “The road goes up hill and down, and it is rutted and dusty and stony but every turn of the wheels changes our view of the woods and the hills. The sky seems lower here, and it is the softest blue. The distances and the valleys are blue whenever you can see them. It is a drowsy country that makes you feel wide awake and alive but somehow contented.”

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

Laura Ingalls Wilder Quote: “It beats me,” he said, “why they call a south wind a norther, and how a wind from the south can be so tarnation cold. I never saw anything like it. Down here in this country, the north end of a south wind is the coldest wind I ever heard of.”

157. “It beats me,” he said, “why they call a south wind a norther, and how a wind from the south can be so tarnation cold. I never saw anything like it. Down here in this country, the north end of a south wind is the coldest wind I ever heard of.”

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

Laura Ingalls Wilder Quote: “It was farmers that took all that land and made it America... It was farmers that went over the mountains, and cleared the land, and settled it, and farmed it, and hung onto their land.”

158. “It was farmers that took all that land and made it America... It was farmers that went over the mountains, and cleared the land, and settled it, and farmed it, and hung onto their land.”

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

Laura Ingalls Wilder Quote: “I love to work. And it is a pleasure to write. And, oh, I do just love to play!”

159. “I love to work. And it is a pleasure to write. And, oh, I do just love to play!”

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

Laura Ingalls Wilder Quote: “Grace sat up, too frightened to make a sound, and even Laura was horrified, for the stool lay in two pieces. Then Pa laughed. “Never mind, Grace,” he said. “You only unscrewed it all the way. But,” he said sternly, “you stay off this stool, after this.”

160. “Grace sat up, too frightened to make a sound, and even Laura was horrified, for the stool lay in two pieces. Then Pa laughed. “Never mind, Grace,” he said. “You only unscrewed it all the way. But,” he said sternly, “you stay off this stool, after this.”

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

Laura Ingalls Wilder Quote: “The creek would go down. It would be a gentle, pleasant place to play in again. But nobody could make it do that. Nobody could make it do anything. Laura knew now that there were things stronger than anybody. But the creek had not got her. It had not made her scream and it could not make her cry.”

161. “The creek would go down. It would be a gentle, pleasant place to play in again. But nobody could make it do that. Nobody could make it do anything. Laura knew now that there were things stronger than anybody. But the creek had not got her. It had not made her scream and it could not make her cry.”

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

Laura Ingalls Wilder Quote: “Almanzo could only look longingly at the eager three-year-olds. He just touched their velvety noses, and then he went quickly away from them, and put on his barn frock over his good school-clothes.”

162. “Almanzo could only look longingly at the eager three-year-olds. He just touched their velvety noses, and then he went quickly away from them, and put on his barn frock over his good school-clothes.”

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

Laura Ingalls Wilder Quote: “Laura thought of Ma’s saying, “It takes all kinds of people to make a world.”

163. “Laura thought of Ma’s saying, “It takes all kinds of people to make a world.”

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

Laura Ingalls Wilder Quote: “Mary was bigger than Laura, and she had a rag doll named Nettie. Laura had only a corncob wrapped in a handkerchief, but it was a good doll. It was named Susan. It wasn’t Susan’s fault that she was only a corncob. Sometimes Mary let Laura hold Nettie, but she did it only when Susan couldn’t see.”

164. “Mary was bigger than Laura, and she had a rag doll named Nettie. Laura had only a corncob wrapped in a handkerchief, but it was a good doll. It was named Susan. It wasn’t Susan’s fault that she was only a corncob. Sometimes Mary let Laura hold Nettie, but she did it only when Susan couldn’t see.”

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

Laura Ingalls Wilder Quote: “He called back, softly, “Come out here, Caroline, and look at the moon.”

165. “He called back, softly, “Come out here, Caroline, and look at the moon.”

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

Laura Ingalls Wilder Quote: “Ma made a pancake.”

166. “Ma made a pancake.”

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

Laura Ingalls Wilder Quote: “56. They all flew away into the west. At this point in the novel Pa delivers this haunting line, ‘I would like some one to tell me how they all knew at once that it was time to go, and how they knew which way was west and their ancestral home.” Prof. Lockwood commented, ‘Locusts were then – and still are – mysterious creatures, whose sudden, irruptions are their defining attribute.”

167. “56. They all flew away into the west. At this point in the novel Pa delivers this haunting line, ‘I would like some one to tell me how they all knew at once that it was time to go, and how they knew which way was west and their ancestral home.” Prof. Lockwood commented, ‘Locusts were then – and still are – mysterious creatures, whose sudden, irruptions are their defining attribute.”

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

Laura Ingalls Wilder Quote: “That machine’s a great invention!” he said. “Other folks can stick to old-fashioned ways if they want to, but I’m all for progress. It’s a great age we’re living in. As long as I raise wheat, I’m going to have a machine come and thresh it, if there’s one anywhere in the neighborhood.”

168. “That machine’s a great invention!” he said. “Other folks can stick to old-fashioned ways if they want to, but I’m all for progress. It’s a great age we’re living in. As long as I raise wheat, I’m going to have a machine come and thresh it, if there’s one anywhere in the neighborhood.”

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

Laura Ingalls Wilder Quote: “You don’t want to hear about the time I was a naughty little boy.”

169. “You don’t want to hear about the time I was a naughty little boy.”

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

Laura Ingalls Wilder Quote: “But why couldn’t the little cat –.”

170. “But why couldn’t the little cat –.”

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Laura Ingalls Wilder Quote: “Wilder wrote, ‘The roses scented the wind, and along the road the fresh blossoms, with their new petals and golden centers, looked up like little faces.”

171. “Wilder wrote, ‘The roses scented the wind, and along the road the fresh blossoms, with their new petals and golden centers, looked up like little faces.”

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

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