"Prodigal Summer" Quotes
"Prodigal Summer" follows the interconnected lives of three women in rural Appalachia as they navigate love, nature, and the complexities of human relationships.
fiction | 444 pages | Published in 2000
Quotes
The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
Every little thing wants to be loved.
The truth doesn't have versions, it just is.
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope.
Solitude is a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot.
The forest eats itself and lives forever.
There's no such thing as a weed. Most of what we call invasive species have not invaded, they've been here as long as there's been an earth.
It's a hard thing to love a wild thing, but there's nothing on earth that can touch it for sheer breathtaking beauty.
Tenderness can be found in the most unlikeliest of places, even in the lizard sunning itself on a rock.
She was an odd woman, a bird with a strong beak, a quail perhaps, on a farm full of chickens.
