Cross Creek
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“He would be lonely all his life. But a man took it for his share and went on.”
Source: The Yearling
“I'm eating' it quick... but I'll remember it a long time.”
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“Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.”
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Source: The Yearling
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“A woman never forgets the men she could have had; a man, the women he couldn't”
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Source: Cross Creek Cookery
“The test of beauty is whether it can survive close knowledge.”
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“No man should have proprietary rights over land who does not use that land wisely and lovingly.”
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“Living was no longer the grief behind him, but the anxiety ahead.”
Source: The Yearling
“Ants in the house seem to be, not intruders, but the owners.”
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“Words began fights and words ended them.”
Source: The Yearling
“The best fish in the world are of course those one catches oneself.”
Source: Cross Creek Cookery
Source: Cross Creek Cookery
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“I had done battle with a great fear and the victory was mine.”
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“Garlic, like perfume, must be used with discretion and on the proper occasions.”
Source: Cross Creek Cookery
Source: Cross Creek
“It is not death that kills us, but life. We are done to death by life.”
“Life is strong stuff, some of us can bear more of it than others.”
“to comfort any mortal against loneliness, one other is enough.”
“no case of libel by a negro against a white would even reach a southern court.”
Source: The Yearling