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Cold Sassy Tree

 Olive Anne Burns
 

Important Quotations Explained

 
1. Well, good gosh a'mighty! She's dead as she'll ever be, ain't she? Well, ain't she?
 
 
2. How come you married my grandpa?
 
 
3. I'm sayin' I love you, dang it! I'm sayin' I want you to be my wife! I'm sayin' I been a-waitin' to hold you in my arms ever since the day we got marriedâ. No, way longer than thet, Lord hep me. Miss Love—Love, I been a-waitin' for this minute ever since the day I laid eyes on you!
 
 
4. I better go now, but I ain't never go'n forgit you and please don't forgit me, Will.
 
 
5. We can ast for comfort and hope and patience and courage . . . and we'll git what we ast for. They ain't no gar'ntee thet we ain't go'n have no troubles and ain't go'n die. But shore as frogs croak and cows bellow, God'll forgive us if'n we ast Him to.
 
 
 
 
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