Hillary Jordan Quotes

• What we can't speak, we say in silence.

  Hillary Jordan

  Silencio, Habla

  "Mudbound". Book by Hillary Jordan, March 4, 2008.

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• A veces es necesario hacer el mal. A veces es la única manera de hacer las cosas bien.

  Hillary Jordan

  Way, Sometimes, Make Things Right

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• The truth isn't so simple. Death may be inevitable, but love is not. Love, you have to choose.

  Hillary Jordan

  Love You, Simple, Love Is

  Hillary Jordan (2008). “Mudbound”, p.14, Random House

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• You got to go along to get along.

  Hillary Jordan

  Hillary Jordan (2008). “Mudbound”, p.42, Random House

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• There's a whole lot of evil in the world looks pretty on the outside.

  Hillary Jordan

  Evil, Looks, World

  Hillary Jordan (2008). “Mudbound”, p.227, Random House

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• [He] had a hole in his soul, the kind the devil loves to find. It's like an open doorway for him, lets him enter in and do his wicked work.

  Hillary Jordan

  Soul, Wicked, Devil

  Hillary Jordan (2008). “Mudbound”, p.228, Random House

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• What unimaginable luxury, never to wrestle with whether or why, never to lie awake nights wondering what if

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  Lying, Night, Luxury

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• Here she was, being rescued by a socialist, feminist, lesbian, baby-killing, foreign terrorist. What would the ladies in the sewing circle say to that?

  Hillary Jordan

  Baby, Circles, Feminist

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• When that mama worry takes ahold of a woman you can't expect no sense from her. She'll do or say anything at all and you just better hope you ain't in her way. That's the Lord's doing right there. He made mothers to be like that on account of children need protecting and the men ain't around to do it most of the time. Helping that child be up to the mama. But God never gives us a task without giving us the means to see it through. That mama worry come straight from Him, it make it so she can't help but look after that child.

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  Mother, Children, Mean

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• That's what it is to love someone: to give whatever you can while taking what you must.

  Hillary Jordan

  Giving, Love Someone

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• This was the truth at the core of my existence: this yawning emptiness, scantily clad in rage. It had been there all along.

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  Yawning, Emptiness, Rage

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• I must start at the beginning, if I can find it. Beginnings are elusive things. Just when you think you have hold of one, you look back and see another, earlier beginning, and an earlier one before that. Even if you start with "Chapter One: I Am Born, " you still have the problem of antecedents, of cause and effect.

  Hillary Jordan

  Thinking, Looks, Causes

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• You don't have to stop thinking and asking questions to believe in God, child. If He'd wanted a flock of eight billion sheep, He wouldn't have given us opposable thumbs, much less free will.

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  Niños, Creer, Pensar

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