The Hidden Flower Quotes

“Mind and body were well or ill together.”
― Pearl S. Buck, The Hidden Flower

“We are compelled to choose,” he sometimes complained, “between the savagery of Communism and the vulgarism of America.”
― Pearl S. Buck, The Hidden Flower

“THE GARDEN WAS QUIET. Beyond its walls no echo of footsteps could be heard above the soft incessant splash of the waterfall. The silence was planned, as everything in the garden was planned, though all seemed nature itself.”
― Pearl S. Buck, The Hidden Flower

“Like most garden lovers, he could never enjoy the perfection of the garden as much as he wished, because his overzealous eye saw always some imperfection, too minute to be noticed by a stranger.”
― Pearl S. Buck, The Hidden Flower

“The country she had taken for granted as her own, where she had been born, whose language alone she spoke, had rejected her and despised her.”
― Pearl S. Buck, The Hidden Flower