her mother Quotes

“When he hugged her to him she couldn’t respond for a storm of tears was inside her and her mother seemed so close now. He smelled exactly as she’d imagined -of the bush, of fire and wood and sweat and also faintly of tobacco. She wished she could hug him back but she drew away when Mrs Robinson pushed open the wire screen door and greeted him.”

“But then all the little girl had said was that her mother liked red, yellow, green and blue -- and so Mr. Rabbit was trying.”

“The next day, Annie and her mother crossed the ford and walked up to the crossroads and meet Willa off the afternoon bus. ‘What a journey!’ said Willa. ‘Two changes?’ asked her mother. ‘Three!’ said Willa. ‘This place is miles from anywhere.‘”

“Violet is extremely depressed to see how weak her mother is, and how she does everything her father tells her to do and does not care that her husband has no respect for her whatsoever.”

“So her mother suggested she write a letter, and she did! The pages are filled with drawings, photographs, and plenty of great details.”

“Her mother sends her over to a neighbor’s house with bread, where there has been no time for baking because a baby was born. But on the way, while she visits a ewe with twin lambs, Ida hears the low whistles smugglers use to signal one another.”