The Yearling Quotes

“Men-folks has got to stick together in the name o’ peace.”

“But he was a sound amalgam; sound as copper itself; and with something, too, of the copper’s softness.”

“Now he understood. This was death. Death was a silence that gave back no answer.”

“He lay down beside the fawn. He put one arm across its neck. It did not seem to him that he could ever be lonely again.”

“He was addled with April. He was dizzy with Spring. He was as drunk as Lem Forrester on a Saturday night.”

“But Penny’s bowels yearned over his son. He gave him something more than his paternity.”

“The sunrise brought a wild, free sadness; the sunset, a lonely yet a comforting one. He indulged his agreeable melancholy until the earth under him turned from gray to lavender and then to the color dried corn husks.”

″‘I like you, Ma.’ ‘You and them hounds and all the rest o’ the stock,′ she said. ‘Mighty lovin’ on an empty belly and me with a dish in my hand.′ ‘That’s the way you’re purtiest,’ he said, and grinned.”

“The wild animals seemed less predatory to him than people he had known.”

“He found that the child stood wide-eyed and breathless before the miracle of bird and creature, of flower and tree, of wind and rain and sun and moon, as he had always stood.”