Rhoda Janzen

“I'm not really a chicken-patty kinda girl," I said.”

— Rhoda Janzen

Is it ever really a waste of time to love someone, truly and deeply, with everything you have?

— Rhoda Janzen

“Granny panties. White as a flag, but with no surrender.”

— Rhoda Janzen

“Phil and Hannah had decided that Christian guilt was better than bad math”

— rhoda janzen

“This was as true and sweet as ice cream in December. We each had our different priorities. If you held them lightly…

— Rhoda Janzen

“I would rather get a PhD than stand to reach for toilet paper. Though some readers might emphasize the similarities between the…

— Rhoda Janzen

In my opinion, sexiness comes down to three things: chemistry, sense of humor, and treatment of waitstaff at restaurants.

— Rhoda Janzen

“It was after Nick had left me that I learned the lesson: its when you don't love somebody that you do notice…

— Rhoda Janzen

Theoretically, we Mennonites do not even know what we look like, since a focus on our personal appearance is vainglorious. Our antipathy…

— Rhoda Janzen

“The idea is that the woman's heritage and background are just as important as the man's. Many women see taking a man's…

— Rhoda Janzen

“When you're young, faith is often a matter of rules. What you should do and shouldn't do, that kind of thing. But…

— Rhoda Janzen

“I think maybe I'd still nod and smile and have lunch with him. I think maybe I'd still go to the Noam…

— Rhoda Janzen

“I've come to believe that virtue isn’t a condition of character. It’s an elected action. It’s a choice we keep making, over…

— Rhoda Janzen

“Call me old-fashioned, but whenever I see those wire-fortified ribbons, I have the secret stab of nostalgia for old-timey ribbon, the kind…

— Rhoda Janzen

In my opinion, sexiness comes down to three things: chemistry, sense of humor, and treatment of waitstaff at restaurants. If the sparks…

— Rhoda Janzen

“Sometimes you can just feel a person's decency in the same way that sometimes you can intuit a lack of it. Phil…

— Rhoda Janzen