Branches Quote by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

“This, then, was hunger. This was what his mother had meant when she had said, "We'll all go hongry." He had laughed, for he…

— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

You can't change a man, no-ways. By the time his mummy turns him loose and he takes up with some innocent woman and marries…

— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Life is strong stuff, some of us can bear more of it than others.

— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Who owns Cross Creek? The red-birds, I think, more than I, for they will have their nests even in the face of delinquent mortgages..It…

— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

“You've seed how things goes in the world o' men. You've knowed men to be low-down and mean. You've seed ol' Death at his…

— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

For myself, the Creek satisfies a thing that had gone hungry and unfed since childhood days. I am often lonely. Who is not? But…

— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

“I do not understand how anyone can live without one small place of enchantment to turn to.”

— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Writing is agony for me. I work at it eight hours every day, hoping to get six pages, but I am satisfied with three.

— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

No man should have proprietary rights over land who does not use that land wisely and lovingly.

— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

“Perhaps all men were moved against their will. A man ordered his life, and then an obscurity of circumstance sent him down a road…

— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

the inferred is always more effective than the obvious.

— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

“He wrote: Dear ollever; yor ol twinkk has dun gode up the rivver. im gladd. yor friend jody.”

— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings