# Quote — Willa Cather, My Antonia

> Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen. On the farm the weather was the great fact, and men's affairs went on underneath it, as the streams creep under the ice. But in Black Hawk the scene of human life was spread out shrunken and pinched, frozen down to the bare stalk.

- Author: [Willa Cather](https://www.leafyquotes.com/willa-cather.md)
- Book: [My Antonia](https://www.leafyquotes.com/willa-cather/my-antonia.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/willa-cather/my-antonia/winter-lies-too

## More from this book

> Men are all right for friends, but as soon as you marry them they turn into cranky old fathers, even the wild ones. They begin to tell you what's sensible and what's foolish, and want you to stick at home all the time. I prefer to be foolish when I feel like it, and be accountable to nobody.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/willa-cather/my-antonia/men-are-all.md)

> As I confronted her, the changes grew less apparent to me, her identity stronger. She was there, in the full vigour of her personality, battered but not diminished, looking at me, speaking to me in the husky, breathy voice I remembered so well.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/willa-cather/my-antonia/as-i-confronted.md)

> In the course of twenty crowded years one parts with many illusions. I did not wish to lose the early ones. Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/willa-cather/my-antonia/in-the-course.md)