Missing May Quotes

I never saw two people love each other so much. Sometimes the tears would just come over me, looking at the two of them, even six years back when I first got here and was too young to be thinking a...

Then Uncle Ob and Aunt May from West Virginia visited, and they knew an angel when they saw her and they took me on home. (1.5)

When she died and all her brothers and sisters passed me from house to house, nobody ever wanting to take care of me for long, I still had that lesson in love deep inside me and I didn't grow mean...

Only this part of her death seemed right. The garden. All the rest of it seemed so wrong, and it has been nearly six months—we have gone through two seasons—without her, and still I don't know...

But most amazingly, most miraculously, now Ob is insisting that May was, is, right here with us. That she came back a few days ago and is truly right here with us. (2.6)

But I felt like one of those little mice who has to figure out the right button to push before its food will drop down into the cup. Caged and begging. That's how I felt sometimes. (1.12)

When I was younger, either Ob or May would walk me out to the road and stand there freezing with me in the dark, making me stomp my feet to keep the blood circulating till the lights of the bus wou...

When she died and all her brothers and sisters passed me from house to house, nobody ever wanted to take care of me for long… (1.4)

I needed that from her. I needed to know that dying and going to heaven didn't involve any regrets or sorrows or worries. (2.33)

That first night in it with Ob and May was as close to paradise as I may ever come in my life. Paradise because these two old people [...] started, from the minute we pulled up in Ob's old Valiant,...