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Winnie Parker teaches at the mountain school outside of Troublesome Creek. Her husband left the area to find work in Detroit, and she is waiting to be reunited with him. She is a friend of Cussy Mary Carter’s and has the distinction of being the only person who visited Cussy while she recuperated from her brief, violent marriage to Charlie Frazier. Like Angeline and Miss Loretta Adams, she doesn’t seem to be bothered by Cussy’s blue skin.
Winnie Parker Quotes in The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
The The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek quotes below are all either spoken by Winnie Parker or refer to Winnie Parker. 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 21
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Winnie clasped her hands. “If only we could get more outreach programs up here. If only they could send a block of cheese with every book, a loaf of bread.” She tilted her head to the sky as if telling it to God.
I wished it too. Their hunger for books could teach them of a better life free of the hunger, but without food they’d never live long enough to have the strength to find it.
“Just one damn block of cheese,” Winnie scratched out in a whisper.
I thought of the cheese Doc promised. If I could bargain with him for more food, I could give it to the schoolchildren.
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Winnie Parker Quotes in The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
The The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek quotes below are all either spoken by Winnie Parker or refer to Winnie Parker. 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 21
Quotes
Winnie clasped her hands. “If only we could get more outreach programs up here. If only they could send a block of cheese with every book, a loaf of bread.” She tilted her head to the sky as if telling it to God.
I wished it too. Their hunger for books could teach them of a better life free of the hunger, but without food they’d never live long enough to have the strength to find it.
“Just one damn block of cheese,” Winnie scratched out in a whisper.
I thought of the cheese Doc promised. If I could bargain with him for more food, I could give it to the schoolchildren.
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