“I found the world of the Little House books to be so much less confusing, not just because it was "simpler," as plenty of people love to insist, but because it reconciled all the little contradictions of my modern girlhood.… — Wendy McClure Copy Share Image
“The fact that Nellie wasn't any one person but rather a composite of three of the real Laura's antagonists' worst traits makes her even… — Wendy McClure Copy Share Image
“I hate the thought that I'm just some kind of Russian nesting doll with the big outside and inevitably, rattling around under all the… — Wendy McClure Copy Share Image
“It didn't feel like the last night of anything anymore, just that the world went on and would follow us home” — Wendy McClure Copy Share Image
“...subtitled it 'Everything you Always Wanted to Know About Driving Out to Remote Locations in the Upper Midwest to Find your Childhood Imaginary Friend… — Wendy McClure Copy Share Image
“For me, reading that scene never fails to bring on a brief, scalding instant of recognition in recalling exactly what it was like to… — Wendy McClure Copy Share Image
“...but Lake Pepin might be best known to most of the world as the place where, more than a hundred and thirty years ago,… — Wendy McClure Copy Share Image
“If being a girl is a frontier all its own, what is the manifest destiny?” — Wendy McClure Copy Share Image
“From everything that I'd read, End Timers were waiting for the collapse of civilization the way fans of the Twilight series awaited the trailer… — Wendy McClure Copy Share Image
“I do realize how this all sounds. I realize that in this account of my journey to the Little House on the Prairie, a… — Wendy McClure Copy Share Image
“The little room was full of ordinary things that had already become precious, that I couldn't help but want to have again, to feel… — Wendy McClure Copy Share Image
“I found the world of the Little House books to be so much less confusing, not just because it was "simpler," as plenty of… — Wendy McClure Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, Laura World wasn't a realm of log cabins or prairies, it was a way of being. Really, a way of being happy. I… — Wendy McClure Copy Share Image
