"My Ántonia" Quotes
"My Ántonia" is a novel by Willa Cather that explores the enduring friendship between Jim Burden and Ántonia Shimerda against the backdrop of the American frontier in the late 19th century.
classics | 232 pages | Published in 2018
Quotes
The new country lay open before me: there were no fences in those days, and I could choose my own way over the grass uplands.
Antonia had always been one to leave images in the mind that did not fade—that grew stronger with time.
Men travel faster now, but I do not know if they go to better things.
People have to snatch at happiness when they can, in this world. It is always easier to lose than to find.
The idea of you is a part of my mind; you influence my likes and dislikes, all my tastes, hundreds of times when I don't realize it.
Things will be easy for you. But they will be hard for us.
I ain’t never forgot my own country.
If I live here, like you, that is different. Things will be easy for you. But they will be hard for us.
The older I grow, the more I like to think of those days, and of Antonia.
We were all feeling serious, and I think we all felt alike.
