Quotes by Shawn Stewart Ruff

See, you dont wanna be a Jew. Too much work--theres a lot of holidays but its even more work. Its sanctioned oppression, its Gods tyranny.

Kids without dads are desperate and jealous. Those with dads can be uppity and sharp.

Sundays normally were hell. Or just the church pat of it, actually. It wasnt that I was afraid of God, or had anything against Him. It was just that having to be there for two to four hours made me cross, hateful, and blasphemous. Plus it seemed to me that the regulars, the good God-fearing folks, who didnt have diddly-squat, liked to pretend they had a lot to flaunt -- whereas the ones that had a whole lot showed up on holidays and funerals, in fancy cars and dressed to kill, all made possible by money they didnt tithe away every week. Thats where Sunday-based faith got you -- broke and with a sore butt!

My ultimate authority would be the school librarian Mrs. Greenbacher.