Country Life Quotes Quotes

“The crows squawked and scattered from their perch on wooden rail fence, as the rhythmic clip-clop of the horse's hooves grew louder.”
― Arlene Stafford-Wilson, Lanark County Collection: Winding Our Way Down Memory Lane

“With school over for the year, and days that stretched as long as our country lane-ways, we enjoyed a pure and joyful freedom, an elusive state of complete happiness, one that some would fail to recapture, ever again, in our all-too-brief time on this Earth.”
― Arlene Stafford-Wilson, Lanark County Comfort

“The sugar moon, which is the closest full moon to the spring equinox, is said to usher in the best maple syrup weather, and marks the transition from winter to spring.”
― Arlene Stafford-Wilson, Lanark County Kitchen: A Maple Legacy from Tree to Table

“If the reader doesn't connect with your character, they are not going to connect with the story. I try to make my characters very relatable. After all, we are selling their story. The reader has to be able to feel what the character is feeling. They have to laugh and cry with them.”
― Stacy Thowe, God Bless My Broken Road

“Go somewhere where you won't hear the sound of cars! Let the moonlight see you; let the silent hedgehogs pass you by; let the scent of honeysuckle meet your nose; hear the owl's hoot; greet a shooting star; if you see flickering candles instead of electric lights in the windows of stone houses, look, my friend, you are truly in a beautiful place, drink in that beauty to your heart's content, let your soul revive!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan