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Mercy Among the Children QUOTES

Mercy Among the Children QUOTES

1 " What should I get from books?” Alcide asked in French.

That you are not alone — even along this broken tractor road. You need to know nothing else,” my father answered in French. "

― David Adams Richards , Mercy Among the Children

2 " There is no worse flaw in man's character than that of wanting to belong. "

― David Adams Richards , Mercy Among the Children

3 " [...]no one can do an injury to you without doing an injury to themselves. "

― David Adams Richards , Mercy Among the Children

4 " I was nothing more than a thug with Tolstoy in my pocket. "

― David Adams Richards , Mercy Among the Children

5 " If the poor rabbits knew I was selling their dead bodies for wine, they would be heartbroken. "

― David Adams Richards , Mercy Among the Children

6 " You do not understand -- no accomplishment overcomes the stigma of being different. [...] I try not to think about it and cannot eat my supper or nothing. I didn't understand it at first. But now I do. You are not different in the way difference is acceptable but in another, bigger way. "

― David Adams Richards , Mercy Among the Children

7 " Those who scorn you taunt only themselves -- I knew this without reading one word; because in reading one is reminded of the truth man is given at birth -- by man I mean man and woman. "

― David Adams Richards , Mercy Among the Children

8 " and wind whispered in the porch. Didn’t I tell my father I would kill him? And should I? I searched the house. I heard a noise and went into "

― David Adams Richards , Mercy Among the Children

9 " needed, more "

― David Adams Richards , Mercy Among the Children

10 " to speak, felt weak, and fell in front of her. She got "

― David Adams Richards , Mercy Among the Children