"The Yearling" Quotes
A young boy forms a bond with a deer in the Florida wilderness.
classics | 416 pages | Published in 2021
Quotes
You've got to spread your own colours. If you're a man, you've got to spread your man-colour, and if you're a woman, you've got to spread your lady-colour. That's part of the law.
And when Paul’s ginger head was lowered in death, Ma Baxter scolded the children soundly because they were not weeping and everything went on as it had been.
The yearling had to be killed: there was no other answer.
He did not believe that tears could possibly be falling from his eyes, but he did believe that his heart was breaking.
Accuracy of aim is not always to be trusted. Many traps are bent and rendered useless by the food’s fierce snapping at them.
When you're huntin' in the bush, you don't reckon time by hours; you reckon it by happenin's.
His folly had exceeded his father's; he had talked when silence was golden.
He knew now that there was no release from his own will, saved from such timber as might delight him.
She knew Jody Baxter loved the wild thing that walked by his side, and it was only his grief that made him seem to hate her.
The moment Pearl saw the fawn, he loved her.
