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1. "Somewhere beyond the sink-hole, past the magnolia, under the live oaks, a boy and a yearling ran side by side, and were gone forever." ~ Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
2. "We cannot live without the Earth or apart from it, and something is shrivelled in a man's heart when he turns away from it and concerns himself only with the affairs of men" ~ Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
3. "Madness is only a variety of mental nonconformity and we are all individualists here." ~ Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
4. "Who owns Cross Creek? The red-birds, I think, more than I, for they will have their nests even in the face of delinquent mortgages..It seems to me that the earth may be borrowed, but not bought. It may be used, but not owned. It gives itself in response to love and tending, offers its sesonal flowering and fruiting. But we are tenants and not possessors, lovers, and not masters. Cross Creek belongs to the wind and the rain, to the sun and the seasons, to the cosmic secrecy of seed, and beyond all, to time..." " ~ Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
5. "You've seed how things goes in the world o' men. You've knowed men to be low-down and mean. You've seed ol' Death at his tricks...Ever' man wants life to be a fine thing, and a easy. 'Tis fine, boy, powerful fine, but 'tain't easy. Life knocks a man down and he gits up and it knocks him down agin. I've been uneasy all my life...I've wanted life to be easy for you. Easier'n 'twas for me. A man's heart aches, seein' his young uns face the world. Knowin' they got to get their guts tore out, the way his was tore. I wanted to spare you, long as I could. I wanted you to frolic with your yearlin'. I knowed the lonesomeness he eased for you. But ever' man's lonesome. What's he to do then? What's he to do when he gits knocked down? Why, take it for his share and go on. —Penny Baxter" ~ Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
6. "Good" is what helps us or at least does not hinder. "Evil" is whatever harms us or interferes with us, according to our own selfish standards." ~ Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
7. "This, then, was hunger. This was what his mother had meant when she had said, "We'll all go hongry." He had laughed, for he had thought he had known hunger, and it was faintly pleasant. He knew now that it had been only appetite. This was another thing." ~ Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
8. "Sift each of us through the great sieve of circumstance and you have a residue, great or small as the case may be, that is the man or the woman." ~ Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
9. "...a pie so delicate, so luscious, that I hope to be propped up on my dying bed and fed a generous portion. Then I think that I should refuse outright to die, for life would be too good to relinquish." ~ Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
10. "They listened with flattering attention. He was filled with enthusiasm. He began at the beginning and tried to tell it as he thought Penny would do. Half-way through, he looked down at the cake. He lost interest in the account."Then Pa shot him," he ended abruptly." ~ Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
11. "Don't go gittin faintified on me." ~ Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
12. "Eulalie in a remote fashion belonged to him, Jody, to do with as he pleased, if only to throw potatoes at her." ~ Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
13. "Jody said, "Ma, you're shore good.""Oh, yes. When it's rations.""Well, I'd a heap ruther you was good about rations and mean about other things.""Oh, I be mean, be I?""Only about jest a very few things," he soothed her." ~ Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
14. "He wrote: Dear ollever; yor ol twinkk has dun gode up the rivver. im gladd. yor friend jody." ~ Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
15. "You do somethin' for me? Go tell Twink I'll meet her at the old grove Tuesday about dusk-dark."Jody was frozen.He burst out, "I won't do it. I hate her. Ol' yellow-headed somethin'." ~ Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
16. "He could understand that the creatures, the fish and the owls, should feed and frolic at moon-rise, at moon-down and at south-moon-over, for these were all plain marks to go by, direct and visible. He marvelled, padding on bare feet past the slat-fence of the clearing, that the moon was so strong that when it lay the other side of the earth, the creatures felt it and stirred by the hour it struck. The moon was far away, unseen, and it had power to move them." ~ Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
17. "Hit don't make no difference what a man perfesses. I been in a heap o' churches. There's the Nazarene Church and the Pentecost and the Holy Rollers and the Baptists and I don't know what-all. I cain't see much difference to nary one of ‘em. There's a good to all of ‘em and there's a bad." ~ Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
18. "A part of the placidity of the South comes from the sense of well-being that follows the heart-and-body-warming consumption of breads fresh from the oven. We serve cold baker's bread to our enemies, trusting that they will never impose on our hospitality again." ~ Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
19. "Writing is agony for me. I work at it eight hours every day, hoping to get six pages, but I am satisfied with three." ~ Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
20. "When a wave of love takes over a human being... such an exaltation takes him that he knows he has put his finger on the pulse of the great secret and the great answer." ~ Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
21. "Perhaps all men were moved against their will. A man ordered his life, and then an obscurity of circumstance sent him down a road that was not of his own desire or choosing. Something beyond a man's immediate choice and will reached through the earth and stirred him. He did not see how any man might escape it." ~ Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
22. "Men had reached into the scrub and along its boundaries, had snatched what they could get and had gone away, uneasy in that vast indifferent peace; for a man was nothing, crawling ant-like among the myrtle bushes under the pines. Now they were gone, it was as though they had never been. The silence of the scrub was primordial. The wood-thrush crying across it might have been the first bird in the world—or the last." ~ Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
23. "Good God, with a bountyLook down on Marion County,For the soil is so pore, and so awful rooty, too,I don't know what to God the pore folks gonna do." ~ Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

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