"Those were the salad days...the sleepless nights, the wailing babies, the days the interior of the house looked like it had been hit by a hurricane, the times I had 5 kids...and a wife in bed with fever. Even when the fourth glass of milk got spilled in a single night, or the shrill screeching threatened to split my skull, or when I was bailing out some son or other...they were good years, grand years...One minute Marlena and I were up to our eyeballs and next thing the kids were borrowing the car and fleeing the coop for college."
from Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
"So many battles fought, and for what? Most of these battles weren't even for The Good Fight; they weren't part of the war against Satan. The battles for which Nurse Verna girded herself in armor--both physical and spiritual--were battles that Nurse Verna fought in order to control the people, environment and events happening around her. They were Verna's personal battles, not God's battles."
From The Girl Who Married an Eagle by Tamar Myers
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