The Roots of the Olive Tree Quotes

“I’d put more distance between us. Having us here, always together hasn’t allowed for any fondness to grow between us.”
― Courtney Miller Santo, The Roots of the Olive Tree

“Anna shook her head. “You’ll understand it better when I die. That despite how age has equaled us, we’re not equals, and that’s what you have in a sister, an equal.”
― Courtney Miller Santo, The Roots of the Olive Tree

“The woman who’s your mother or your mother’s mother is different than a sister,” she said.”
― Courtney Miller Santo, The Roots of the Olive Tree

“Anna used to tell her children that God never gave one commandment about liking a person and she’d learned over the years that it was possible to love without having a lot of like in your heart.”
― Courtney Miller Santo, The Roots of the Olive Tree

“Hill House was not the oldest home in Kidron, but because it was one of the few plots of elevated land in this part of the valley and the orchard was still family owned, it was one of the stops on the tourism route drawn up by the town. The brochure, which Anna had hanging on her refrigerator, called it Kidron’s own San Simeon. It was, of course, not even a third of the size of that mansion,”
― Courtney Miller Santo, The Roots of the Olive Tree

“Anna answered with the Irish proverb she heard from her own mother’s lips more times than she could count. “A son is a son till he takes him a wife, a daughter is a daughter all of her life.”
― Courtney Miller Santo, The Roots of the Olive Tree

“That’s all old age is really, a bunch of gremlins running around your body, turning stuff off, slowing down the mechanisms that have kept us going.”
― Courtney Miller Santo, The Roots of the Olive Tree

“They had no perspective, no understanding of how much still needed to be preserved.”
― Courtney Miller Santo, The Roots of the Olive Tree

“she was realizing that too many minutes of her days were taken up by unexamined habits.”
― Courtney Miller Santo, The Roots of the Olive Tree