The Sojourner Quotes

“It had been so brief a sojourn, not even a full century. He had been a guest in a mansion and he was not ungrateful. He was at once exhausted and refreshed. His stay was ended. Now he must gather up the shabby impedimenta of his mind and body and be on his way again.”
― Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, The Sojourner

“I’ll walk off the rest of my mad.”
― Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, The Sojourner

“It occurred to him that the increasing patience of age was as great a myth as the unalloyed joy of youth. The longer he lived, the less tolerance he had for the patently evil.”
― Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, The Sojourner

“She was not unattractive until she focused her eyes on a human being, when their unblinking coldness gave the effect of the stare of an adder.”
― Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, The Sojourner

“Yet it was . . . Asahel who knew those books secretly by heart, and read, as laboriously as he did everything else, any scrap of paper with printing on it, poring hungrily over the magic of words.”
― Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, The Sojourner

“Some of the books that provided the richest fare were hidden under unrevealing names, like a rare soul behind a drab face”
― Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, The Sojourner

“His father had never planted an orchard. No growing thing was graceless, but that scowling, snarling man, Hiram Linden, had seemed purposely to avoid all crops that flowered in beauty. All were utilitarian, sown with surliness and harvested with oaths. Ase was the first Linden of three generations to consider the earth and its bounty with reverence and affection, to long to adorn it as best he might during his tenure.”
― Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, The Sojourner

“There seemed no question now but that her obsession had taken her a step or two inside that palace of black ice where men are shadows and shadows become men.”
― Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, The Sojourner

“Life is a difficult matter, and the more a simple man may learn of what greater men have thought, and taught, have spoken and have written, the better can he cope with any sort of life.”
― Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, The Sojourner