"Winter's Bone" Quotes
A gritty tale of a young girl's quest to find her missing father in the dangerous and impoverished Ozarks.
fiction | 208 pages | Published in 2012
Quotes
Sometimes the things you know are the things you shouldn't believe in the most.
You gotta carry that anger, you gotta hold it tight. You'll use that anger to push you through, y'hear?
You told me once to remember the value of my own skin. That it was alright to let things work a little one way for your own benefit.
You gotta stand your ground. Say what you're here to say, and get on your way.
Hurt is a bad thing. sorrow is, too. But anger is good. It keeps you from going under.
You make sure you take a child to the water 'fore you teach 'em to swim.
Never be sorry for showing feeling. When you stop showing it, then you're in trouble.
Sometimes you gotta take the wheel, even if it scares you, or you'll end up stuck.
If winter's coming, does that mean we can't swim no more?
You've always got to know where your line is and keep it on the side of what's fine.





