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Mr. Myles is Nora’s patient. An elderly Black man, Mr. Myles lost his ability to speak after his second stroke and now requires home health nurses, like Nora, to care for him. Nora explains that because he can’t speak, Mr. Myles’s history and personality are a mystery to everyone. Even though Mr. Myles can’t speak, Nora notices him withdrawing in the weeks before they stumble across the community garden. The garden reignites Mr. Myles’s desire to live and with Nora’s help, he plants a barrel of flowers.
Mr. Myles Quotes in Seedfolks
The Seedfolks quotes below are all either spoken by Mr. Myles or refer to Mr. Myles. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 10: Nora
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Gardening boring? Never! It has suspense, tragedy, startling developments—a soap opera growing out of the ground.
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A fact bobbed up from my memory, that the ancient Egyptians prescribed walking through a garden as a cure for the mad. It was a mind-altering drug we took daily.
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Most were old. Many grew plants from their native lands—huge Chinese melons, ginger, cilantro, a green the Jamaicans call Callaloo, and many more. Pantomime was often required to get over language barriers. Yet we were all subject to the same weather and pests, the same neighborhood, and the same parental emotions toward our plants.
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Mr. Myles Quotes in Seedfolks
The Seedfolks quotes below are all either spoken by Mr. Myles or refer to Mr. Myles. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 10: Nora
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Gardening boring? Never! It has suspense, tragedy, startling developments—a soap opera growing out of the ground.
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A fact bobbed up from my memory, that the ancient Egyptians prescribed walking through a garden as a cure for the mad. It was a mind-altering drug we took daily.
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Most were old. Many grew plants from their native lands—huge Chinese melons, ginger, cilantro, a green the Jamaicans call Callaloo, and many more. Pantomime was often required to get over language barriers. Yet we were all subject to the same weather and pests, the same neighborhood, and the same parental emotions toward our plants.
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