"Where The Lilies Bloom" Quotes
After their parents' deaths, four siblings in the Appalachian mountains struggle to keep their family together by harvesting and selling wild herbs.
historical fiction | 175 pages | Published in 1969
Quotes
We've got to stick together, just like a bunch of grapes.
It's not the world that's so bad, but what we're doing to it.
It's like the earth's my mother, and I'm a little seed planted in her heart.
Ain't no use in cryin' over the moon when the sun's still shinin'.
The world's full of folks who never wanted nothin' more than what they had.
I reckon if you've got to be scared, you might as well be scared of something real.
The Lord helps them that helps themselves.
There's a heap of difference between wantin' what you ain't got and wantin' what you can't have.
Sometimes I think the best part of livin' is the part you don't see.
If you can't help yourself, nobody else can help you.
