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Quotation from My Ántonia by Willa Cather
“I was something that lay under the sun and felt it, like the pumpkins, and I did not want to be anything more. I was entirely happy”
My Ántonia, Book I, Ch. 2 (1918 first edition)
Jim lies in his grandmother's garden, dissolving into the landscape.
Citation: "I was something that lay under the sun and felt it, like the pumpkins, and I did not want to be anything more. I was entirely happy" — Willa Cather, My Ántonia, Book I, Ch. 2 (1918 first edition). (id my-antonia-q2)
Portrait: Willa Cather ca. 1912 wearing necklace from Sarah Orne Jewett (cropped), Photographer: Aime Dupont Studio, New York, Public domain.
