The Four Winds Quotes

“Some lives are not ours to hold on to; God makes His choices without us.”

“I came west in search of a better life, but my American dream was turned into a nightmare by poverty and hardship and greed.”

“Remember, cara, hard times don’t last. Land and family do.”

“Life is tough. You need to be tougher or it will turn you inside out.”

“He’d made her feel more beautiful in one minute than the rest of the world had in twenty-five years.”

“There was a pain that came with constant disapproval; a sense of having lost something unnamed, unknown.”

“Don’t worry about dying, Elsa. Worry about not living. Be brave.”

“She knew now what she hadn’t known before, hadn’t even suspected: she would do anything, suffer anything, to be loved, even if it was just for a night.”

“When your children were dying, you did anything to save them, even walk over mountains and across deserts.”

“For a man who had two religions - God and the land - he was dying a little each day, disappointed by them both.”