# Quote — Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

> I felt so lonesome I most wished I was dead. The stars were shining, and the leaves rustled in the woods ever so mournful; and I heard an owl, away off, who-whooing about somebody that was dead, and a whippowill and a dog crying about somebody that was going to die; and the wind was trying to whisper something to me, and I couldn’t make out what it was, and so it made the cold shivers run over me.

- Author: [Mark Twain](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-twain.md)
- Book: [Adventures of Huckleberry Finn](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-twain/adventures-of-huckleberry-finn.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn#Chapter_I) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Topics: [fear](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/fear.md), [loneliness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/loneliness.md)
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-twain/adventures-of-huckleberry-finn/i-felt-so-lonesome

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> All kings is mostly rapscallions, as fur as I can make out.

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> There warn't no color in his face, where his face showed; it was white; not like another man's white, but a white to make a body sick, a white to make a body's flesh crawl—a tree-toad white, a fish-belly white.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-twain/adventures-of-huckleberry-finn/there-warnt-no-color.md)

> The average man don’t like trouble and danger.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-twain/adventures-of-huckleberry-finn/the-average-man.md)

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