28 Quotes by Sharyn McCrumb


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    I wonder which is worse-the death, not knowing what comes after, or the wedding, when you think you know, but you’re wrong.

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    All babies are incoherent, but they grow up. That is the principle difference between an infant and a poet.

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    The most momentous events in life – baptisms, weddings, and funerals – don’t seem to take much time, but the effects of them bind up the whole of your existence.

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    Domestic rabbits don’t have the sense that God promised animal crackers.

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    Machines seem to sense that I am afraid of them. It makes them hostile.

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    Oh, son, hardly anybody wants to leave. These mountains are more than just a place for folks around here.

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    Wild steep mountains floating in a haze of cloud... a sea of green trees swallowing the hills and valleys, and curling around the trails and rivers, with the wind in the leaves as its tide.

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