Whose boys are those with the holes in their pants?" I cringed. How would my grandpa answer such an embarrassing question? "Those are my daughter's children, my grandchildren," Grandpa spoke as if he'd just been asked who had won first place in a foo...
Tourist Lady: [Book is in town with Eli. Eli and the other Amish are trying to avoid the tourists with cameras] Hi! We're just here for the day, would you mind... John Book: Lady, you take my picture with that thing and I'm gonna rip your brassiere o...
[Daniel Hochleitner comforts Rachel after her husband's death, then walks by as some funeral guests are chatting] Amish: Jacob was a good farmer. Amish: Not a man to buy a horse from. Hochleitner, wasn't it he who sold you the one with the ruptured t...
Our culture promotes individuality, while the Amish are deeply entrenched in community. To us, if someone stands out, it's no big deal because diversity is respected and expected. To the Amish, there's no room for deviation from the norm. It's import...
I'm remote from most technology to the point that I'm kind of Amish.
The perfect weather that had allowed us to get the oats and corn in ahead of time probably also contributed to the dearth of migrating warblers. With no storms to force the birds down, they overflew this area on their northward journey. At least I ho...
Townsman: [Book, dressed in Amish clothes, has just finished severely beating a local youth who was harassing Daniel Hochleitner] Never seen anything like it in all my years! Daniel Hochleitner: He's from Ohio, my cousin. Townsman: Well, them Ohio Am...
I was born and raised in Lancaster, Pennsylvania - in Amish Country!
Vampires have credit cards?" "We're undead, not Amish.
Amish recognize each others' horse like we do our friends' car.
John Book: [John appears in Amish clothes before going to town with Eli, Rachel laughs, John approaches Rachel] My gun, I need my gun. [Rachel gets the gun out of the cupboard, John turns to leave] John Book: The bullets? Not much good without 'em. R...
The world is so different when viewed through the light of God’s Word.
Murphy's law inverted: What can go right, will go right.
The Amish like to live a very plain lifestyle, the way they think God intended. It sort of brings you back to, like, 'Little House on the Prairie' days or something.
At Motel 6 in Amish Country I wonder if they leave the light on for you?
Southern hospitality and Amish cooking - Ya'll Come Back, Danki.
I'm not Amish, but I grew up in that same area of Pennsylvania and became very attracted to the inherent strictness and uniformity of that community.
There can be no assumption that today's majority is 'right' and the Amish and others like them are 'wrong.' A way of life that is odd or even erratic but interferes with no rights or interests of others is not to be condemned because it is different.
[Book moves to intervene against some locals harassing the Amish] Eli Lapp: It's not our way. John Book: It's my way.
John Book: How do I look - I mean, do I look Amish? Rachel Lapp: [nods] You look plain.
I love the unabashed over-buttered, over-creamed, deep-fried, gooey, over-sugared excessiveness of Amish food,
