The Scarlet Ibis Quotes

Pride is a wonderful terrible thing a seed that bears two vines life and death.

There is within me a knot of cruelty borne by the stream of love, much as our blood sometimes bears the seed of our destruction ...

All of us must have something or someone to be proud of.

Scarlet Ibis, you’ve got some fire in you. Uncle, can we keep her?” I shrugged him off, rolling my eyes.

For a long time, I lay there crying, sheltering my fallen scarlet ibis from the heresy of rain.

They did not know that I did it for myself; that pride, whose slave I was, spoke to me louder than al their voices, and that Doodle walked only because I was ashamed of having a crippled brother.

I did not know the that pride is a wonderful, terrible thing, a seed that bears two vines, life and death.

Of course, he wasn't a CRAZY crazy like old Miss Leedie, who was in love with President Wilson and wrote him a love letter every day, but was a nice crazy, like someone you meet in your dreams.

We'd bedeck ourselves with our handiwork and loll about thus beautified, beyond the touch of the everyday world.

Hope no longer hid in the dark palmetto thicket but perched like a cardinal in the lacy toothbrush tree, brilliantly visible.

Brother, Brother, don't leave me! Don't leave me!

Oh yes you can, Doodle,' I said. 'All you got to do is try.

What are the words that can solder cracked pride?

Our relationship had been fast, hot, and reckless. Passion-filled, like a pot of pelau bubbling over the fire — rich, wild, and spicy.