You got to go along to get along.

“It wasn't her fault if she seemed less than human, it was the fault of them that did this to her, and them that…

— Hillary Jordan

This was the truth at the core of my existence: this yawning emptiness, scantily clad in rage. It had been there all along.

— Hillary Jordan

“You’ll move if I say so,” Hap said. “For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of…

— Hillary Jordan

“But I must start at the beginning, if I can find it. Beginnings are elusive things. Just when you think you have hold of…

— Hillary Jordan

“To be touched with love was a kind of miracle.”

— Hillary Jordan

“I talked to her just like I talk to a laboring woman. Mothers need to hear them soothing words. They just as important as…

— Hillary Jordan

“If God is the Creator, if God englobes every single thing in the universe, then God is everything, and everything is God. God is…

— Hillary Jordan

When that mama worry takes ahold of a woman you can't expect no sense from her. She'll do or say anything at all and…

— Hillary Jordan

“Daddy shook Pappy's hand, then Henry's, then hugged the children. At last he turned to me. Softly, in a voice meant for my ears…

— Hillary Jordan

“How could predetermination and free will both exist? “It’s”

— Hillary Jordan

“It wasn’t just that he loved her; it was that he loved her, in particular.”

— Hillary Jordan

“She reached out and stroked my hair just as she had when I was a child. I closed my eyes and let sleep take…

— Hillary Jordan

“Death may be inevitable, but love is not. Love, you have to choose. I'll begin with that. With Love.”

— Hillary Jordan

“She prayed for that all through the night, uncertain to Whom or what, but with a feeling that almost resembled faith.”

— Hillary Jordan

“...like the way a child hankers for a holly berry. He don't know it's poison, he just sees something pretty and red and he…

— Hillary Jordan