Tag: Selected Quotes

“His name was John Henry, and there was a divine sense of humor thing in that because he was a steel-driving preacher.”

Ride, Sally, Ride, p. 66

“Whenever you see wholesale titillation and razzle dazzle, you can be assured the real game is somewhere else.”

Ride, Sally, Ride, p. 64

“She was a set of walking incongruities. Her dress was plain cotton, and she was wearing the same kind of white sneakers that she had worn for years. Apart from the two novelties, she clearly had the Old Order Mennonite look. But the baseball cap made her feel like her head was on fire, and while she had no intention of playing the hussy, the lipstick made her feel like she was almost one.”

Ride, Sally, Ride, p. 42

“Stephanie nodded. Good to meet you, she seemed to indicate. She was cool and aloof, but still friendly. Like a sunbeam shining down on the upper slopes of a beautiful glacier.”

Ride, Sally, Ride, p. 42

“The other members of his team could take a great deal of this. They were eating it out of the carton with a spoon.”

Ride, Sally, Ride, p. 35

“The other attorneys looked at him expectantly, like two rows of sea lions on either side of the table waiting for the trainer to throw a fish over the Plexiglass.”

Ride, Sally, Ride, p. 34

“Here, in the Colorado of the present day, he was about as radical as a cow eating the cabbage.”

Ride, Sally, Ride, p. 33

“A half hour later, after he had been triumphing in his imagination over all kinds of throwbacks and troglodytes for quite an enjoyable session of daydreaming, he had remembered the duddiness of Ted. In fact, all the younger attorneys there, who were as woke as midmorning, used to call him the Sugar Duddy.”

Ride, Sally, Ride, p. 31

“Ted was ostensibly hunting moose and bear, based out of a cabin that was somewhere near Timbukthree, or possibly four.”

Ride, Sally, Ride, p. 30

“How ambitious was he? He wanted to dunk the moon, and hang on the rim.”

Ride, Sally, Ride, p. 29