

“But I never think about dead people. Looking at these old graves makes me think how generation after generation of the same family are all gathered together. And that makes me think about how life goes on, but not about dying. I never think about dying.”
― Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
― Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

“Early summer days are a jubilee time for birds. In the fields, around the house, in the barn, in the woods, in the swamp - everywhere love and songs and nests and eggs.”
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“I did not say my prayers that night: here, I felt, what would be, would be”
― My Ántonia
― My Ántonia
“Sometimes truths are what we run from, and sometimes they are what we seek.”
― The Elephant Tree
― The Elephant Tree
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