Home / Quotes / Quote by Jesmyn Ward

Quote by Jesmyn Ward

“Christophe peeled the shrimp slowly and carefully: that was his way around her, and it was the exact opposite of his usual demeanor. She knew it for what it was: love.”

Quote by Jesmyn Ward

Book:Where the Line Bleeds

Work

Where the Line Bleeds

Browse quotes and source details for this work. more

Author

Jesmyn Ward is an American novelist known for her profound portrayals of life in the American South. Her works delve into complex themes such as race, class, and social justice, earning her widespread acclaim. more

You May Also Like

“It's so nice to be around a man who isn't hung up about his car," she said. "Mom, I can't believe you're saying that. You treat that Coupe Deville like it's a member of the family." "But I'm a woman, darling. I'm supposed to feel that way about my Deville.”

Cars Mississippi Authors

Book:The Green-Eyed Hurricane

Source: The Green-Eyed Hurricane

“I had never read a book written by an African-American. I didn't know that black people could write books. I didn't know that blacks had done any great things. I was always conscious of my inferiority and I always remembered my place - until the Civil Rights Movement came to the town where I was born and grew up.”

Memoir African Americans Playwright Civil Rights Movement Mississippi Authors

Book:From the Mississippi Delta: A Memoir

Source: From the Mississippi Delta: A Memoir

“But the book! The siren song of the book!”

Book Books Book Lovers Mississippi Authors Mississippi Writers

Book:Witnessing

Source: Witnessing

“Then the light changed the water, until all about them the woods in the rising wind seemed to grow taller and blow inward together and suddenly turn dark. The rain struck heavily. A huge tail seemed to lash through the air and the river broke in a wound of silver.”

Mississippi Mississippi Authors Mississippi Writers The Wide Net

Book:The Collected Stories

Source: The Collected Stories

“The road lay long and black ahead of them and the heat was coming now through the thin soles of their shoes. There were young beans pushing up from the dry brown fields, tiny rows of green sprigs that stretched away in the distance.”

Weather Mississippi Authors

Book:Joe

Source: Joe

“That's just it, Eva said with a gleam in her eyes that matched the rhinestones on her glasses, you had to get somebody to teach you, to facilitate. Literacy wasn't like a piece of my mama's lemon cake you handed over to somebody on a plate.”

Reading Literacy Mississippi Authors Mississippi Writers

Book:The Queen of Palmyra

Source: The Queen of Palmyra

“He read it over twenty times and though the darkness that sang on held steady about him, the unhurried words fell bright through his mind, going down golden through deep water, and when one passed another came, ceaselessly, shining.”

Reading Words Mississippi Authors

Book:This Crooked Way

Source: This Crooked Way

“Later they took him to Jackson and that explained it; he was crazy.”

Mississippi Mississippi Authors Mississippi Writers

Book:Follow Me Down

Source: Follow Me Down

“People hear whispers as loud as guns.”

Mississippi Authors

Book:The Voice at the Back Door

Source: The Voice at the Back Door

“Strength comes from struggle. When you learn to see your struggles as opportunities to become stronger, better, wiser, then your thinking shifts from "I can't do this" to "I must do this.”

Life Inspiration Opportunity Growth

Author:Toni Sorenson