James Hurst > Quotes

“Pride is a wonderful terrible thing a seed that bears two vines life and death.”
― James Hurst, The Scarlet Ibis

“There is within me a knot of cruelty borne by the stream of love, much as our blood sometimes bears the seed of our destruction ...”
― James Hurst, The Scarlet Ibis

“All of us must have something or someone to be proud of.”
― James Hurst, The Scarlet Ibis

“They did not know that I did it for myself; that pride, whose slave I was, spoke to me louder than al their voices, and that Doodle walked only because I was ashamed of having a crippled brother.”
― James Hurst, The Scarlet Ibis

“Brother, Brother, don't leave me! Don't leave me!”
― James Hurst, The Scarlet Ibis

“For a long time, I lay there crying, sheltering my fallen scarlet ibis from the heresy of rain.”
― James Hurst, The Scarlet Ibis

“What are the words that can solder cracked pride?”
― James Hurst, The Scarlet Ibis

“Hope no longer hid in the dark palmetto thicket but perched like a cardinal in the lacy toothbrush tree, brilliantly visible.”
― James Hurst, The Scarlet Ibis

“Oh yes you can, Doodle,' I said. 'All you got to do is try.”
― James Hurst, The Scarlet Ibis

“We'd bedeck ourselves with our handiwork and loll about thus beautified, beyond the touch of the everyday world.”
― James Hurst, The Scarlet Ibis

“I did not know the that pride is a wonderful, terrible thing, a seed that bears two vines, life and death.”
― James Hurst, The Scarlet Ibis

“Of course, he wasn't a CRAZY crazy like old Miss Leedie, who was in love with President Wilson and wrote him a love letter every day, but was a nice crazy, like someone you meet in your dreams.”
― James Hurst, The Scarlet Ibis