The Yearling Quotes

"Jody was always amazed at the capability of her great frame and hands when there was trouble" (4.101)

"Most women-folks cain't see for their lives, how a man loves so to ramble" (1.43)

"You Baxters has got guts, I'll say that" (15.168)

"A boy ain't a boy too long" (2.4)

"He still wore the coat of the broadcloth suit that he had been married in, that he now wore as badge of his gentility when he went to church, or off trading. The sleeves were too short" (1.25)

"Somehow, the seasons always took him unawares. It must be necessary to be as old as his father to keep them in the mind and memory, to remember moon-time from one year's end to another" (1.78)

"'Nobody but me don't take life serious,' she lamented" (3.73)

"It occurred to him for the first time that perhaps he should not have left the place while his father was away" (1.23)

"Jody knew that he should feel badly about old Betsy, but all that he could feel was excitement. The unwarranted kill, inside the sanctuary of the Baxter acres, had made a personal enemy of the bi...