Home / Books / Jonny Appleseed

Jonny Appleseed

Book by Joshua Whitehead · 4 quotes · Home, Death, Grief

Browse quotes from Jonny Appleseed.

Book detail: Jonny Appleseed is presented as a focused source page for quotations connected with this book, collection, transcript, or source record.

Browse quotes from Jonny Appleseed.

The quotes below use the same card format as the rest of the site, including topics, source notes, copy actions, image creation, and sharing controls.

Filter quotes by topic

All Home Death Grief Healing Hope Hospitals Indian Authors Indigenous Medicine Mourning Native Nurses Sadness Wisdom

Jonny Appleseed Quotes

“The nurses were busybodies, I could hear them scurrying about in the rooms adjacent to ours. They were telling jokes and laughing. Their happiness pissed me off. Stop fucking laughing, I thought, my kokum's lying here dead...She wrote up a report and closed my kokum's eyes, then walked out of the room and summoned a doctor. In the room beside us, another nurse was still laughing. Sometimes I don't like how life goes on. And sometimes I don't think it should.”

Death Grief Sadness Mourning Hospitals Nurses

Book:Jonny Appleseed

Source: Jonny Appleseed

“Maybe we're more like dandelions. A weed that's a pest in the yard but pretty to look at. Yeah, an Indian home is like a dandelion, pretty, but disposable and imbued with a million little seeds that dissolve into wishes for little white hands that pluck. My home is full of hope and ghosts.”

Home Hope Native Indian Authors

Book:Jonny Appleseed

Source: Jonny Appleseed

“...leaving home always hurts--home isn't a space, it's a feeling. You have to feel home and to feel it, you have to sense it: smell it, taste it, hear it. And it isn't always comfortable--”

Book:Jonny Appleseed

Source: Jonny Appleseed

“I am my own best medicine.”

Wisdom Healing Medicine Indigenous

Book:Jonny Appleseed

Source: Jonny Appleseed