The Wind Quotes

“I can’t imagine how you did it,’ she cried.
‘I didn’t have no time to imagine. It’s what folks imagines that gen’rally ruins ‘em. It’s like maggots in the brain. My hands and feet had to keep movin’ so fast that my head didn’t have no chance to contradict ‘em.”
― Dorothy Scarborough, The Wind

“Bev’s the whole world to me. I love him like a cyclone. And I love him too the way a prairie feels when it’s still and calm at night, when the wind don’t blow an’ the spring flowers are in bloom and the stars shine soft.”
― Dorothy Scarborough, The Wind

“When you look at it one way, a man don’t amount to a pin-point. But I’m more of a man when I’m out here on the plains. Seems like I can stand up on my hind legs and look God in the face man to man, you might say, and He understands me, and I understand Him.”

Letty felt vaguely shocked at what she thought might be irreverence. “I think you can find God best in a church,” she said with prim shyness.

“I ain’t sayin’ you can’t find Him there. He must come there sometimes, anyways, to show He appreciates the trouble folks go to fix a place for Him. But I have an idea He’s kind o’ notionate, like me - gets fidgety if you try to pin Him in a house too long.”
― Dorothy Scarborough, The Wind

“It’s not what I’d choose, but I didn’t know what else to do. Oh, why aren’t girls taught to make their living and take care of themselves, the same as men?”
― Dorothy Scarborough, The Wind