The River Between Us Quotes

They'd divvied up, some for the North, more for the South. Why didn't they just fight it out right here in the road, fair and square? Did they even know it could end with them killing one another i...

"If you ask me," Mama murmured, "them two don't add up." (4.26)

Noah hung Paw's fowling piece with the pouch and the shotbag on the chimney. Mama wanted him to sit at the head of the table, in Paw's chair. It was to remind Noah that he was all the man this fami...

A law on the books said that black people weren't allowed in Illinois. We paid no attention to that, of course. There were plenty of black people in the state. And they were all free. (4.5)

All I knew of Dad's people was that they'd lived through the Civil War. Imagine an age when there were still people around who'd seen U. S. Grant with their own eyes, and men who'd voted for Lincol...

The whole heat-hazed place looked as old as the rocks it nestled among. It didn't seem likely to me that anybody had ever been young here. (1.42)

A bunch of local boys met up after their work, pretending to soldier. You couldn't get many boys to stick up for U.S. Grant and the North that April. Only the Henson boys and Gideon Hickman and Jac...

Mama feared that people were commencing to talk about Cass. She never told her visions outside the family. She said little or nothing in company. But people could see her up here, perched on the De...