💬 Quotes

"All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn."

"All right, then, I'll go to hell."

"You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter."

"Human beings can be awful cruel to one another."

"It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race."

"I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead of the rest, because Aunt Sally she’s going to adopt me and sivilize me, and I can’t stand it. I been there before."

"It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you."

"Witches never mess about. They don't just kill you, they make you disappear."

"A real witch is certain to be wearing gloves whenever you meet her... She has to wear gloves because her fingernails are actually curved talons like a cat's."

"I may be a mouse, but I have the heart of a boy and the soul of a hero."

"You are going to be a mouse for the rest of your life. But you will be a very happy mouse."

"A witch is not a woman. She is a creature of the devil, disguised as a woman, and her only purpose is to destroy children."

"Nature is not cruel, only cruel to those who do not understand her ways."

"I don't know if there is an instinct for goodness, but there is certainly an instinct for survival."

"Most times, people leave. That's just what they do."

"Go as far as you can—way out where the crawdads sing."

"The marsh did not confine her; it liberated her."

"Every creature does what it must to survive, and every creature has its own unique song."

"I might be braver than I was before, but I am not fearless. And I don't think I ever will be."

"My scars do not mean I am weak; they mean I survived."