Where Wild Peaches Grow Quotes

“But she discovered, when there is death around you, it makes you want to live life more”
― Cade Bentley, Where Wild Peaches Grow

“The world’s history shouldn’t be taken away or added to at the whims of others who want to tell a different story. Tell the story like it happened. And how do we do that?”
― Cade Bentley, Where Wild Peaches Grow

“It was just like she taught her students: know your history because then you’ll know yourself. It is freeing. And it stops you from making the same mistakes again.”
― Cade Bentley, Where Wild Peaches Grow

“Nona decided she couldn’t ride in the family car provided by the funeral home.”
― Cade Bentley, Where Wild Peaches Grow

“But our stories have often been supplanted with deliberate misinformation. Revisionism. Done to tell a different story. A better story. It has, for us, stagnated civic discourse and made our thread in America’s social fabric a patchwork, all through storytelling. Incorrect storytelling.”
― Cade Bentley, Where Wild Peaches Grow

“Death brings up all kinds of thoughts. Of things long forgotten. Good memories. But also those strands of bad ones weaved in.”
― Cade Bentley, Where Wild Peaches Grow

“overflowing and consuming her.”
― Cade Bentley, Where Wild Peaches Grow

“had once loved with boldness and wholeheartedness, she now gave her heart with forbearance. Because that was the only way she could keep her emotions from overflowing”
― Cade Bentley, Where Wild Peaches Grow

“civic discourse and made our thread in America’s social fabric a patchwork, all through storytelling. Incorrect storytelling.”
― Cade Bentley, Where Wild Peaches Grow

“We are forced to take a great deal of Care to weed them out, otherwise they make our Land a Wilderness of Peach-Trees. —John Lawson, 1709”
― Cade Bentley, Where Wild Peaches Grow