Nebraska Quotes

“Nobody's that naive," she muttered. "Nobody's that guileless."

"He's from Nebraska." Peabody scanned her pocket unit.

"From where?"

"Nebraska." Peabody waived a hand, vaguely west.... "They still grow them pretty guileless in Nebraska. I think it's all that soy and corn.”
― J.D. Robb, Witness in Death

“If you've had good gin on a hot day in Southern California with the people you love, you forget Nebraska. The two things cannot coexist. The stronger, better of the two wins.”
― Ann Patchett, The Magician's Assistant

“One of these days I'm going to leave Nebraska, cut all those strings and ties and travel to the other prairies of this earth. I must know if the people who live on those other prairies feel the same way about their horizons as we do about ours.”
― John Janovy Jr., Yellowlegs

“But Nebraska was not always a bed of roses. When the first settlers arrived, they found a harsh, unforgiving place, a vast treeless expanse of barren, drought-parched soil. And so, summoning up the dynamic pioneer spirit of hope and steely determination, they left. But a few of them remained and built sod houses, which are actually made of dirt. Think about that. You can’t clean a sod house, because it would be gone. The early settlers had a hell of a time getting this through to their children. “You kids stop tracking dirt out of the house!” they’d yell.”
― Dave Barry

“A Lutheran church in Nebraska is typically a place where any mad passion for Christ is politely concealed. Men and women recite the various creeds in hypnotic monotone; the hymns, pumped from wheezy organ pipes, are sung with no lilt or musicality. The members of the choirs not only don't dance, they don't sway. That's not to say no one is ever smacked hard with God's love or filled up to the eyeballs with the Holy Spirit, but when you are, you keep it to yourself." (48)”
― Timothy Schaffert, The Coffins of Little Hope

“Eventually, I headed to the bathroom, and I mention this only because I saw in that bathroom the most quintessentially American artifact I have ever encountered: a bright blue rubber mat resting in the bottom of the urinal emblazoned with the following legend:

Epply
World's Cleanest Airport
Omaha, NE

God bless our relentless idiotic optimism.”
― Steve Almond, Candyfreak: A Journey through the Chocolate Underbelly of America

“The Great Plains were immense enough to inspire the grandest, most foolish of dreams - but they were also vast enough that no one could ever explore every corner.”
― Melanie Benjamin, The Children's Blizzard

“I once saw a moat bicycling around a castle. It was being chased by a soggy giraffe that had a tornado for a neck. I was on the overlooking grassy hill, selling lasagna-free duck soup by the slice to tourists from Nebraska.”
― Jarod Kintz, Music is fluid, and my saxophone overflows when my ducks slosh in the sounds I make in elevators.

“Joshua took a gulp of his own brew. “Need I have some other cause, when this plague could devastate so many of my patients and neighbors? When, if some of the reports prove true, we might see the town reduced painfully in size, as farmers abandon their holdings and flee to the East?”

If the thought of one particular family leaving town, of Clara Brook’s tall figure climbing aboard a wagon and vanishing beyond the horizon, gave him a peculiar twinge, he was hardly obliged to say so.”
― Karen A. Wyle, What Heals the Heart

“I find Ugg boots really comforting... they remind me that we live in a place where you can still get away with, even get excited about, Ugg boots. In fashionable places, you have to pretend that you're over them, or that you've always hated them. But in Nebraska, you can still be happy about new Ugg boots. That's nice. There's no end to the innocence.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

“It was one thing to be under the earth, in Nebraska. And quite another to be on top of it. To plant your feet against the wind and glare because you could hardly keep your eyes open. And glare because you could hardly smile, not without getting grit in your teeth.”
― Allie Ray, Inheritance

“Nebraska dark didn't close in, it stretched out...Broad stretching sky covering everything, everything, forever. He could see what was ahead in the beam of his headlights, but beyond that was more of the same. Of the same. Of the same. No tight corners or dead-ends. No earth-trapping suffocation. The opposite. There was nothing, forever, nothing, and he could breathe in and breathe in and breathe in and breathe in until his lungs exploded and there would still be more air, more wind, clawing its way down his useless throat.

That was Nebraska.”
― Allie Ray, Inheritance

“You can't grow tobacco in Nebraska."
Cole kept a quiet smile. "Reckon we'll see."
Harold scoffed. "Youre about to be disappointed, kid."
"I think you mean Mr. Schubert is.”
― Allie Ray, Inheritance

“Sometimes in life, you just stop caring, move to Nebraska, and start farming wheat”
― Todd McKnight

“Nebraska. Seriously? What demon would choose to live in Nebraska of all places?"

"You've got to be kidding me," Micah mutters when he reads the address over my shoulder. "Don't they marry cousins there?"

Shaking my head, I say, "No, that's Kentucky. I don't know if they do anything in Nebraska.”
― Rory Miles, Tainted Power - The Complete Series

“Were Stag's Crossing to expand it would not be through the act of men laying down fences but like the festering of an open wound. A thousand acres of weeping flesh left to rot in eastern Nebraska”
― Kailee Pedersen

“At dinner parties he might say, I'm from Nebraska, and you? Wih the smug self-indulgence of a man who is from somewhere but no longer inhabits it, has no longer any need of that place called Stag's Crossing that his father so carefully constructed for his sons.”
― kailee pedersen, Sacrificial Animals

“At dinner parties he might say, I'm from Nebraska, and you? With the smug self-indulgence of a man who is from somewhere but no longer inhabits it, has no longer any need of that place called Stag's Crossing that his father so carefully constructed for his sons.”
― Kailee Pedersen, Sacrificial Animals

“Young and having barely grown his first pair of antlers he is innocent of this fatal desire to engrave himself into the body of another. Reworking and remaking the fabric of his destiny, skin against skin.”
― Kailee Pedersen, Sacrificial Animals

“She was struggling with something she had never felt before. A new conception of art? It came closer than that. A new kind of personality? But it was much more. It was a discovery about life, a revelation of love as a tragic force, not a melting mood, of passion that drowns like black water.”
― Willa Cather, Lucy Gayheart