Important Quotations Explained
"He works in mysterious ways, don't He."
In my old age, specially in grinding, when I saw an empty cane field, it always made me feel lonely. The rows looked so naked and gray and lonely-like an old house where the people moved from.
"Yes, sir," Johnny Paul said. "But you still don't see. Yes, sir, what you see is the weeds, but you don't see what we don't see."
He looked around at all of them. "Won't it ever stop? I do all I can to stop it. Every day of my life, I do all I can to stop it. Won't it ever stop?"
"I leaned over and touched him, hoping that some of that stuff he had found back there in the swamps might rub off on me."
