grapes of wrath quotes
"'When you're young, Rosasharn, ever'thing that happens is a thing all by itself. It's a lonely thing, I know, I 'member Rosasharn. You're gonna have a baby, Rosasharn, and that's somepin to you lonely and away. That's gonna hurt you, an' the hurt'll be lonely hurt, an' this here tent is alone in the worl', Rosasharn...They's a time of change, an' when that comes, dyin' is a piece of all dyin', and bearin' is a piece of all bearin', an' bearin' and dyin' is two pieces of the same thing. An' then things ain't lonely any more. An' then a hurt don't hurt so bad, 'cause it ain't a lonely hurt no more Rosasharn. I wisht I could tell you so you'd know, but I can't.'" - (Ma), pgs. 285-286
"Men and women, dripping, clothes sticking tight, watched; then gurgling and sloshing in their shoes they walked back to the camp to the tents, and they talked softly in wonder. We been saved, they said. We're washed white as snow. We won't never sin again.
And the children, frightened and wet, whispered together:
We been saved. We won't sin no more.
Wisht I knowed what all the sins was, so I could do 'em." - pgs.450-451
"She looked at him suddenly and closely, to see how he had come so close so quickly. She looked for motive on his face and found nothing but friendliness. Then she looked at the frayed seams on his white coat, and she was reassured." - pg. 416
"Men and women, dripping, clothes sticking tight, watched; then gurgling and sloshing in their shoes they walked back to the camp to the tents, and they talked softly in wonder. We been saved, they said. We're washed white as snow. We won't never sin again.
And the children, frightened and wet, whispered together:
We been saved. We won't sin no more.
Wisht I knowed what all the sins was, so I could do 'em." - pgs.450-451
"She looked at him suddenly and closely, to see how he had come so close so quickly. She looked for motive on his face and found nothing but friendliness. Then she looked at the frayed seams on his white coat, and she was reassured." - pg. 416