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"My Antonia by Willa Cather" Quotes
"My Ántonia" by Willa Cather is a poignant tale of friendship and the immigrant experience set against the backdrop of the American Midwest.
Quotes
Whatever we had missed, we possessed together the precious, the incommunicable past.
The earth was warm under me, and warm as I crumbled it through my fingers.
That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great.
Ain't it wonderful how much people can mean to each other?
The older girls had been to town, and brought back new ideas.
I was something that lay under the sun and felt it, like the pumpkins, and I did not want to be anything more.
Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.
The thing was to be free, to live one's own life, to have the chance to be a little more than a hired girl.
Antonia, you are a part of me, and I am a part of you.
There was nothing but land; not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made.