Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Quotes

“I do not understand how anyone can live without some small place of enchantment to turn to.”

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

“Somewhere beyond the sink-hole, past the magnolia, under the live oaks, a boy and a yearling ran side by side, and were gone forever.”

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

“A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life, to be thankful for a good one.”

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

“We cannot live without the Earth or apart from it, and something is shrivelled in a man's heart when he turns away from it and concerns himself only with the affairs of men”

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Source: Cross Creek

“Madness is only a variety of mental nonconformity and we are all individualists here.”

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Source: Cross Creek

“Now he understood. This was death. Death was a silence that gave back no answer.”

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings book The Yearling

Source: The Yearling