When the Ground Is Hard Quotes

“Both your Mothers are squint eyed sluts, who got no class”
― Malla Nunn, When the Ground Is Hard

“Where would Jane be without that inheritance from her long-lost uncle? If she was in Swaziland, I'll tell you where she'd be: living in a grass hut with nothing to eat but porridge. A blind and crippled husband. No running water. No money for school fees. No happy ending.”
― Malla Nunn, When the Ground Is Hard

“A dark wind lifts dirt into the air. The land absorbs the sobs of the women and the flinty silence of the gravediggers. The long fields and tall hills swallow us all.”
― Malla Nunn, When the Ground Is Hard

“Jane is stuck in the space between things.”
― Malla Nunn, When the Ground Is Hard

“Books are better than gossip, though Delia doesn't think so.”
― Malla Nunn, When the Ground Is Hard