bothered Quotes

“I had begun to notice that my mother became irritated when I questioned her about whites and blacks, and I could not quite understand it.”

“I don’t have striped feet like you, so don’t bother me!”

“Priscilla Lapham. Ever since Rab had taken her home and left Johnny to eat six fried eggs by himself, he had felt differently about Cilla. She had been his best friend during the years he worked at the Laphams’. And then for some months she had been a drag on him. He had not bothered much with her. Overnight that had changed. He was always looking forward to Thursdays and the seed cakes and the half-hour sitting out under the fruit trees with Cilla.”