Glory Over Everything: Beyond The Kitchen House Quotes
"Darling, I will see you this evening. Your C."
"He said to tell you that he is Pan’s father."
"Our Pan come late to Alice and me, and now he all I got left of her."
"I'd soon see him dead before I see him sol’ for a slave."
"You got to go get him! Pan’s been tellin’ me how you goin’ down there on that ’scursion. You got to bring him back!"
"I was thirteen when I first met your father."
"I find you out by the stables. Somebody work you over, but look to me like you sick before he got to you."
"I’s Henry. I work the stables back at the Inn. I’s a runaway, like you."
"Your daddy always make sure we got a good room with a fire and a roof over our head."
"You got to cut ties with any niggas that you know."
"Don’t you want to stay with your father?"
"He try takin’ me with him to the tavern, but they say he got to get rid a me or he’s out a job."
"You shoulda woke me up so I can get to my work."
"You understand, then, that I am responsible to speak to you about any household issues that arise?"
"I am happy to be of service to you this evening."
"Your signature is the same as giving your word, and keeping your word is the mark of a man’s character."
"You are correct in believing that it is what one might expect from one’s servant. However, Delia is not your servant."
"I’ve never known anyone to be so taken with birds as our dear Jamie."
"That must have been wonderful," she said.
"You have a remarkable understanding of him."
"I can only imagine your shock in learning the truth about your mother, and I regret my part in the deceit."
"We all have weaknesses," he said with some embarrassment.
"I wondered. If he was waiting outside with the carriage, why hadn’t he rapped at the door?"
"You will continue to care for your brother."
"I must ask, are you still willing to teach me how to paint with a pinfeather?"
"You must know how concerned I am about you."
"I am afraid that it has to do with your mother. I sensed she had an objection?"
"But you see for yourself that I am well."
"I was so drawn to her, that her nearness felt dangerous to me."
"I forced whatever else I might have said back down my throat."
"If you insist on going, I will give you my help, but you must then promise me one thing."
"We should never have left town; we are so isolated out here."
"You always had such skill with a paintbrush."
"I would rather see Caroline dead than with this nigra bastard."
"Dear Sir, There is no easy way to say this. I am in the possession of your child."
"You got to settle down. You actin’ like somebody on your tail."
"You know full well that the water is the color it is because of the tannin from the cedars."
"I don’t like the feeling that this land gives off, and the sooner we are through it, the happier I shall be."
"Well, Father, why don’t we have Mr. Burton stay with us?"
Caught unaware, I looked nervously at her father and then at her. "That is kind, Miss Adelaide, but I am looking to board somewhere within the vicinity of a place called Southwood. It is located—"
While traveling with Henry, I had already planned this lie, and now it came easily. "Apparently, it is a region that has an unusually large collection of birds I wish to study."
"Art is not a competition," I said to Patricia. "If you have a natural inclination for it, art is a gift that you may choose to develop or not, regardless of age."
"You got to be strong like my boys," she writes.
"You think that he was showing me kindness when he got that last girl—who you happen to be replacing—with a child?" she asks.
"They sell them," she writes, crying at the same time.
"I’ll soon be sixteen," Addy interjected.
"I don’t know if I am strong enough to climb all of those stairs, Mr. Burton. I believe I might be too weak."
"Then I’ll give you enough time to ride out. But I’m warning you right now, don’t come back!"
"You mustn’t feel bad," she said. "Even I have days when I don’t feel myself."
I understand," said Mr. Spencer. "Sam is the one I would trust with my life.
"I wish you’d come with me," Pan said plaintively.
"You’re going to have to be brave," I said.
"I was only a year older than you when I set out for Philadelphia all on my own."
"I can’t thank you enough for your understanding and your help."
"Mr. Burton! Mr. Burton!" he called out in a loud whisper.
"Don’t worry, Mr. Burton. I’ll be strong, just like you."
"I promised his father I would find him," I said.
"You best take care. Thomas is going to have it out for you."
"I see," I said. "And you help them as well?"
"Your letters will be more intriguing than any novel."
"Are we almost home when we get to the swamp?" Pan asked.
"No," I said, and that silenced him again.
"I’m sorry, Pan," I said. "Maybe I shouldn’t have told you this now."
"You saying my daddy come down here to slave country and he die?"
"I’m sorry, Pan," I said. "I’m afraid I am."
"We’re not going to die! We will come through this, and someday you will be the man your father always knew you would be."
"Mr. Burton, give me the chil’," Hester said.
"She too much work," Peg said, handing Pan a small leather bag.
"You raise her up good," Willie said. "You tell her ’bout us out here. How Peg do for her."
"You sound like a kitty," he said. "Let’s call her Kitty."
"I’ve been scared and running for most of my life."
"You saying your mama was colored like me?" he asked.
"When I passed Pan, I grasped his arm and shouted for him to run."
"Mr. Burton!" Pan called out. "You not thinking right!"
"What happened is you run away, leaving Sukey and me here to die."
"You don’t know what happened? What happened is you run away, leaving Sukey and me here to die."
"I wouldn’t do that. Sit tight for another week or two. Let Thomas’s suspicions die down."
"Life is meant to be lived," she said, "and I mean to live it!"
"I don’t understand how your father could have allowed you to leave under such dangerous conditions."
"Mr. Burton, I assure you, I know everything that is important."
"I shook my head. "I don’t understand how your father could have allowed you to leave under such dangerous conditions."
"I laughed aloud, causing the few others dining to look in our direction."
"I am not a child," she said. "I may be young, and my cousins accuse me of being naive, but I was willing to sacrifice my life for you and your young Pan!"
"I took the warm bread from her, wondering at her fire."
"Father has no idea what to do with me. I believe you suggested that yourself."
"How could I not? They were saying such vile things about you! I decided you had need of my protection."
"A man who is willing to risk his life for the cause has nothing but my admiration."