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

— Shawn Stewart Ruff

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

— Shawn Stewart Ruff

See, you don't want to be a Jew. Too much work--there's a lot of holidays, but it's even more work. It's sanctioned oppression, it's God's tyranny.

— Shawn Stewart Ruff