He was a strange child. Now he clung to her skirts so closely that he hampered her walking, and she laid her hand on his head and kept it there because she knew that somewhere deep down in his prematurely old mind he lived with fear.


The Big Rock Candy Mountain (1943)

Wallace Stegner Quotes

He was a strange child. Now he clung to her skirts so closely that he hampered her walking, and she laid her hand on his head and kept it there...

He was a strange child. Now he clung to her skirts so closely that he hampered her walking, and she laid her hand on his head and kept it there...

He was a strange child. Now he clung to her skirts so closely that he hampered her walking, and she laid her hand on his head and kept it there...

He was a strange child. Now he clung to her skirts so closely that he hampered her walking, and she laid her hand on his head and kept it there...