Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings - The Yearling (1938)

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You can tame a bear. You can tame a wild-cat and you can tame a panther.... You can tame anything, son, excusing the human tongue.

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Magic birds were dancing in the mystic marsh. The grass swayed with them, and the shallow waters, and the earth fluttered under them. The earth was dancing with the cranes, and the low sun, and the wind and sky.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
The sound of his father's voice was a necessity. He longed for the sight of his stooped shoulders as he had never, in the sharpest of his hunger, longed for food.

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You kin tame a bear. You kin tame a wild-cat and you kin tame a panther.... You kin tame arything, son, excusin' the human tongue.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Now he understood. This was death. Death was a silence that gave back no answer.

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A mark was on him from the day's delight, so that all his life, when April was a thin green and the flavor of rain was on his tongue, an old wound would throb and a nostalgia would fill him for something he could not quite remember.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life, to be thankful for a good one.

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Somewhere beyond the sink-hole, past the magnolia, under the live oaks, a boy and a yearling ran side by side, and were gone forever.

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Living was no longer the grief behind him, but the anxiety ahead.

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It seemed a strange thing to him, when earth was earth and rain was rain, that scrawny pines should grow in the scrub, while by every branch and lake and river there grew magnolias. Dogs were the same everywhere, and oxen and mules and horses. But trees were different in different places.

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