She Walks These Hills Quotes

“Mountains have long-lost kinfolk on the other side of the Atlantic. The bloodline that marks that kinship is a vein of a green mineral called serpentine ...”
― Sharyn McCrumb, She Walks These Hills

“Seasons didn't come behind the nicotine-stained walls of Mountain City's prison, so Harm always imagined it spring--the locust trees clustered with shaggy white blooms, the wet woods flecked with bloodroot, and wild roses and honeysuckle flashing white among the chestnuts on the mountainsides...”
― Sharyn McCrumb, She Walks These Hills

“Oh, son, hardly anybody wants to leave. These mountains are more than just a place for folks around here.”
― Sharyn McCrumb, She Walks These Hills

“That was when I realized how fragile a cultural tradition is. If just one generation breaks the chain, a bit of the family’s cultural heritage can be lost forever. Each of us is the only link between the past and the future. All the songs and stories you heard from your elders, all the people you knew as a child who are gone now, all the family traditions—if you don’t keep them alive by sharing them with the next generation, they will disappear.”
― Sharyn McCrumb, She Walks These Hills