Cross Creek
A source page for quotes linked to Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings.
“He would be lonely all his life. But a man took it for his share and went on.”
“I'm eating' it quick... but I'll remember it a long time.”
“Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.”
“A woman never forgets the men she could have had; a man, the women he couldn't”
“The test of beauty is whether it can survive close knowledge.”
“No man should have proprietary rights over land who does not use that land wisely and lovingly.”
“Living was no longer the grief behind him, but the anxiety ahead.”
“Ants in the house seem to be, not intruders, but the owners.”
“Words began fights and words ended them.”
“The best fish in the world are of course those one catches oneself.”
“I had done battle with a great fear and the victory was mine.”
“Garlic, like perfume, must be used with discretion and on the proper occasions.”
“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.”