Annie John Quotes

[…] my mother had to prepare the little girl to be buried. I then began to look at my mother's hands differently […] For a while, though not for very long, I could not bear to have my mother ca...

The summer of the year I turned twelve, I could see I had grown taller; most of my clothes no longer fit. When I could get a dress over my head, the waist then came up to just below my chest. My le...

While she made our lunch, she would also keep an eye on her washing. If it was Tuesday and the colored clothes had been starched, as she placed them on the line I would follow, carrying a basket of...

I was afraid of the dead, as was everyone I knew. (1.2)

We were sure that the much-talked-about future that everybody was preparing us for would never come, for we had such a powerful feeling against it, and why shouldn't our will prevail this time? (3.21)

Except for me, no one seemed a stranger to anything or anyone. Hearing the way their greeted each other, I couldn't be sure that they hadn't all come out of the same woman's belly, and at the same...

We walked home in the hot midmorning sun mostly without event. (2.5)

But sometimes they would show up standing under a tree just as you were passing by. Then they might follow you home, and even though they might not be able to come into your house, they might wait...