The Farm Quotes

“You should not raise them to be too tender, like little lambs. Small lambs, soft lambs—they make the best meat; they are always devoured.”
― Joanne Ramos, The Farm

“The problem is that she is too pretty. When you are too pretty, the other parts of you do not become strong.”
― Joanne Ramos, The Farm

“And suddenly she is exhausted. And sad. A sadness so vast she feels like she is drowning in it... Because nothing is going to change.”
― Joanne Ramos, The Farm

“She doesn’t recognize that life, the very act of it, is blindingly, stupendously courageous”
― Joanne Ramos, The Farm

“Sometimes a person has no choice but hard choices,”
― Joanne Ramos, The Farm

“But you don’t have to be a top leader, or a bestselling writer, or an art-world darling to make your mark. Running simply to run faster is pointless.”
― Joanne Ramos, The Farm

“Jane does not believe people are as free as Reagan thinks they are. Sometimes a person has no choice but hard choices,”
― Joanne Ramos, The Farm

“Reagan covers her face with her hands, willing an epiphany. Thinking so hard her head hurts and wondering if Dad is right, if she’s the kind of person who likes humanity in the abstract but has little interest in actual people. He always tells her that feeling sorry for people isn’t the same as loving them, much less helping them.”
― Joanne Ramos, The Farm

“because what do we really control but how we react to life’s curveballs?”
― Joanne Ramos, The Farm

“feeling sorry for people isn’t the same as loving them, much less helping them.”
― Joanne Ramos, The Farm

“Mrs. Carter and Mr. Carter are very nice! It is only that you need to show respect. They will tell you to call them “Cate and Ted,” very American, very equal—but it is always “sir” and “ma’am.” They will tell you to “make yourself at home”—but they do not want you to make yourself at home! Because it is their home, not yours, and they are not your friends. They are your clients. Only that.”
― Joanne Ramos, The Farm

“Because in America you only have to know how to make money. Money buys everything else.”
― Joanne Ramos, The Farm

“wrote and write nonstop; it’s how I digest the world.”
― Joanne Ramos, The Farm

“It’s not about the money but the freedom, that’s the thing. The freedom to do something real and worthwhile.”
― Joanne Ramos, The Farm

“Becca’s an eager one. Her ambition rubs some of the others the wrong way, but healthy competition pushes everyone to be better. And Mae respects Becca’s hunger. That’s what success boils down to, really, what separates the middling from the great.”
― Joanne Ramos, The Farm

“Mae’s never understood why people—privileged people especially, like Reagan and Katie—insist that there’s something shameful in desiring money. No immigrant ever apologized for wanting a nicer life.”
― Joanne Ramos, The Farm

“Everybody is a little racist”
― Joanne Ramos, The Farm

“But how many Good, Obedient Anyones truly make it in the world?”
― Joanne Ramos, The Farm

“As if being a good girl and being strong willed were in conflict.”
― Joanne Ramos, The Farm