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The Bean Trees (Greer Family, #1) QUOTES

The Bean Trees (Greer Family, #1) QUOTES

1 " There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, 'There now, hang on, you'll get over it.' Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer. "

― Barbara Kingsolver , The Bean Trees (Greer Family, #1)

2 " There is no point in treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad...Sadness is more or less like a head cold -- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer. "

― Barbara Kingsolver , The Bean Trees (Greer Family, #1)

3 " Mama always said barefoot and pregnant was not my style. She knew. "

― Barbara Kingsolver , The Bean Trees (Greer Family, #1)

4 " In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can. "

― Barbara Kingsolver , The Bean Trees (Greer Family, #1)

5 " There were two things about Mama. One is she always expected the best out of me. And the other is that then no matter what I did, whatever I came home with, she acted like it was the moon I had just hung up in the sky and plugged in all the stars. Like I was that good. "

― Barbara Kingsolver , The Bean Trees (Greer Family, #1)

6 " A human being can be good or bad or right or wrong, maybe. But how can you say a person is illegal? You just can't. That's all there is to it. "

― Barbara Kingsolver , The Bean Trees (Greer Family, #1)

7 " Sadness is more or less like a head cold - with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer. "

― Barbara Kingsolver , The Bean Trees (Greer Family, #1)

8 " I had decided early on that if I couldn’t dress elegant, I’d dress memorable. "

― Barbara Kingsolver , The Bean Trees (Greer Family, #1)

9 " That was when we smelled the rain. It was so strong it seemed like more than just a smell. When we stretched out our hands we could practically feel it rising up from the ground. I don’t know how a person could ever describe that scent. "

― Barbara Kingsolver , The Bean Trees (Greer Family, #1)

10 " You from out of town?” he asked after a while, eying my car. “No,” I said. “I go to Kentucky every year to get my license plate.” I didn’t like his looks. "

― Barbara Kingsolver , The Bean Trees (Greer Family, #1)

11 " It seems like almost anything is better than having only yourself to blame when you screw things up. "

― Barbara Kingsolver , The Bean Trees (Greer Family, #1)

12 " They wait out the dry months kind of dead-like, just like everything else, and when the rain comes they wake up and crawl out of the ground and start to holler. "

― Barbara Kingsolver , The Bean Trees (Greer Family, #1)

13 " Please Note. Parts are included for all installations, but no installation requires all of the parts.’ That’s "

― Barbara Kingsolver , The Bean Trees (Greer Family, #1)

14 " But from here on in I’m your Ma, and that means I love you the most. Forever "

― Barbara Kingsolver , The Bean Trees (Greer Family, #1)

15 " As the storm moved closer it broke into hundreds of pieces so that the rain fell here and there from the high clouds in long, curving gray plumes. "

― Barbara Kingsolver , The Bean Trees (Greer Family, #1)

16 " It’s funny how people don’t give that much thought to what kids want, as long as they’re being quiet. "

― Barbara Kingsolver , The Bean Trees (Greer Family, #1)

17 " realized that I had come to my own terms with the desert, but my soul was thirsty. "

― Barbara Kingsolver , The Bean Trees (Greer Family, #1)

18 " being dead seemed a lot like not being born yet, and I hadn’t especially minded that. "

― Barbara Kingsolver , The Bean Trees (Greer Family, #1)

19 " I’ve been thinking about that. About how your kids aren’t really yours, they’re just these people that you try to keep an eye on, and hope you’ll all grow up someday to like each other and still be in one piece. "

― Barbara Kingsolver , The Bean Trees (Greer Family, #1)

20 " Mi'ija, in a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is to make things as right as we can. "

― Barbara Kingsolver , The Bean Trees (Greer Family, #1)