The Girl on the Mountain Quotes

“She floundered in a fog of his hatreds and desires, his”
― Carol Ervin, The Girl on the Mountain

“Roy B. Clarkson’s Tumult on the Mountains: Lumbering in West Virginia—1770-1920.”
― Carol Ervin, The Girl on the Mountain

“when you’re young, you believe your man has to be head of the house and boss of you, too. When you’re older like me, you know that’s a lot of tripe.”
― Carol Ervin, The Girl on the Mountain

“first sip of wine warmed her throat. “I hope that knowledge guides you in the future.”
― Carol Ervin, The Girl on the Mountain

“May Rose had no idea if Mr. Townsend would help, or if he’d understand how nearly useless she became, at least one day each month. Jamie had not.”
― Carol Ervin, The Girl on the Mountain

“Family makes the child, and work makes the man. When a man earns little and feels trapped in his work, he’s likely to drink and hurt his family.” She”
― Carol Ervin, The Girl on the Mountain

“I used to think learning could make people better and more sensitive to each other,” he said. “But people hold on to ignorance like a family heirloom.”
― Carol Ervin, The Girl on the Mountain

“They think they deserve wealth because they’ve been clever.”
― Carol Ervin, The Girl on the Mountain

“May Rose found it odd, this importance of a legal connection to a faithless man.”
― Carol Ervin, The Girl on the Mountain

“How good and thoughtful he is. The world seems full of good men, even if there are monsters in it. BRAM STOKER: DRACULA”
― Carol Ervin, The Girl on the Mountain

“the Lord will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.”
― Carol Ervin, The Girl on the Mountain

“Are you a good reader?” “I plan to be. I plan to love reading.” May Rose squeezed her hand.”
― Carol Ervin, The Girl on the Mountain

“when ordinary humans tried to be as good as God? “We all fall short,” she’d said. “I want to be where I’m encouraged to do better.”
― Carol Ervin, The Girl on the Mountain

“Daily injustice is done, and might is the right of the strongest! HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW: EVANGELINE”
― Carol Ervin, The Girl on the Mountain

“a man might be head of the household, but he needed a woman to keep him strong, to lift him up in sickness and encourage him when he didn’t know what to do next. If”
― Carol Ervin, The Girl on the Mountain

“The man who’d built their cabin had moved on, an old settler who said rich men were destroying creation for toothpicks and clothespins.”
― Carol Ervin, The Girl on the Mountain

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― Carol L. Ervin, The Girl on the Mountain