28 Quotes by Karen Hesse

The way I see it, hard times aren't only about money,or drought,or dust.Hard times are about losing spirit,and hope,and what happens when dreams dry up.

I don't know what I am thinking. But I am alone. I am trapped in the net of the room. In the net of humans. I think maybe I am drowning in the net of humans.

When I point my fingers at the keys, the music springs straight out of me. Right hand playing notes sharp as tongues, telling stories while the smooth buttery rhythms back me up on the left.

And I know now that all the time I was trying to getout of the dust,the fact is,what I am,I am because of the dust.

...the morning with the whole day waiting,full of promise,the nightof quiet, of no expectations, of rest.And the certainty of home, the one I live in,and the onethat lives in me.

When I rode the train west,I went looking for something,but I didn't see anything wonderful.I didn't see anything better than what I already had.Home.

I turn my back on him as he goes,and settle myself in the parlor,and touch Ma's piano.My fingers leave sighsin the dust.

We might not belong to anyone else in this whole world. But us Faulstiches,we belong to each other.

His mother is wishing her boy would come home."Lots of mothers wishing that these days,while their sons walk to California,where rain comes,and the color green doesn't seem like such a miracle,and hope rises daily, like sap in a stem.