--- title: "1 Children Hard Quotes By Paulette Jiles" description: "1 Children Hard quotes by Paulette Jiles. Plus more from Paulette Jiles and more Children Hard sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/978/paulette-jiles-13252_childhood_so-they-all-went-home-afterwards-my-sist_721186.jpg" --- > [“So they all went home afterwards. My sisters and I sat on the veranda and cried until a storm drove us inside. We agreed to meet in the barn loft for crying once a week but after a while we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paulette-jiles/so-they-all-went-home-afterwards-my-sisters-and-i-sat-on-the-veranda/) [Paulette Jiles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paulette-jiles/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/978/paulette-jiles-13252_childhood_so-they-all-went-home-afterwards-my-sist_721186.jpg) ## More by Paulette Jiles > [“No matter what side you were on, if you had survived Gettysburg you were to be congratulated.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paulette-jiles/no-matter-what-side-you-were-on-if-you-had-survived-gettysburg-you/) [Paulette Jiles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paulette-jiles/) > [“At the age he had attained with his life span short before him he had begun to look upon the human world with the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paulette-jiles/at-the-age-he-had-attained-with-his-life-span-short-before-him-he-had/) [Paulette Jiles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paulette-jiles/) > [“He wrote down, in a neat list, all the obligations of a sergeant because written information was what mattered in this world,”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paulette-jiles/he-wrote-down-in-a-neat-list-all-the-obligations-of-a-sergeant/) [Paulette Jiles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paulette-jiles/) > [“The world was in truth made of jackstraws. 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