Margaret Verble > Quotes

“so I don’t give up hope. That would be against my nature. I am descended from people who survived the Trail of Tears.”
― Margaret Verble, Stealing

“whoever we are is spread out all over our kin and we have pieces of each other in us, and that’s true even if some of us are dead and some of us are living.”
― Margaret Verble, Stealing

“There's a lot of wrong done in the world, everybody commits it, but some wrong comes from love and need and some comes from hate and jealousy. There's a difference between those two kinds of wrongs that a lot of people can't see. Kit, in Stealing ”
― Margaret Verble

“I think a lot of times when there’s a snake in the house, at first people don’t want to believe it and hope it’s just a rope or a stick. But, eventually, if there’s one inside, you have to deal with it.”
― Margaret Verble, Stealing

“I’ve been around men all my life. I don’t see how you all live with those things. They take more time and energy than a woman puts into her hair.”
― Margaret Verble, Maud's Line

“Nevertheless, the judge considered himself a Christian. And he did hate other people’s crimes.”
― Margaret Verble, Cherokee America: A Novel

“But the girls don't steal, and that's sort of against human nature. I think the reason for it is that if something went missing everyone would be forced to open up their hidey holes for inspection. And even if they're empty, they are the only secret parts of our beings. We want to protect them more than we want anything that belongs to anybody else.”
― Margaret Verble, Stealing

“Just because you say something over and over again doesn't make it true.”
― Margaret Verble, Stealing

“it sat on her shoulders like puffy clouds do on the ridge on the far side of the river on some fall and winter mornings.”
― Margaret Verble, Stealing

“there are hardly any thieves around here, unless you count Mr. Hodges and the other people running this place who are stealing our lives.”
― Margaret Verble, Stealing

“erect monuments to the past as they cared to recall it.”
― Margaret Verble, When Two Feathers Fell from the Sky

“She said, "You can burn a Comanche at the stake and she won't say a word.”
― Margaret Verble, Stealing

“All she wanted to do was stay with Booker and cling to him like silk to an ear of corn.”
― Margaret Verble, Maud's Line

“There were those sounds and plenty to watch. And when you stay quiet yourself, everything else starts moving.”
― Margaret Verble, Stealing