Laura Ingalls Wilder

Little House on the Prairie

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  • fatimahj07has quotedlast year
    He liked to see the little fawns and their mothers looking at him from the shadowy woods, and the fat, lazy bears eating berries in the wild-berry patches

    Cognitive dissonance - he wants the wild to remain wild but him and his type destroyed everything…

  • fatimahj07has quoted2 years ago
    That’s one good Indian!” Pa said

    When it serves the “white man”… he’s a hypocrite

  • fatimahj07has quoted2 years ago
    poor little Baby Carrie cried

    Carrie is a pest… a noisy one!

  • fatimahj07has quoted2 years ago
    “I wish they’d settle it and stop talking about it,” Ma said

    I really really dislike Caroline Ingalls.

  • fatimahj07has quoted2 years ago
    Yes,” said Pa. “And kill her and eat her, too. You and Mary must stay in the house till I shoot that panther. As soon as daylight comes I will take my gun and go after him.”

    Perhaps they should have stopped encroaching into areas not theirs… like a plague

  • fatimahj07has quoted2 years ago
    Every day Pa went hunting and trapping.

    Christ! How many innocent animals did colonizers kill??!!

  • fatimahj07has quoted2 years ago
    After that, Jack was always chained. He was chained to the house in the daytime, and at night he was chained to the stable door, because horse-thieves were in the country now. They had stolen Mr. Edwards’ horses.

    They weren’t good to Jack…

  • fatimahj07has quoted2 years ago
    because the heat would be too hard on Pet and Patty. They must pull the wagon twenty miles a day, to get to town in two days. And he did not want to be away from home any longer than he had to

    That’s rubbish. The Ingalls would abuse their animals when it suited their purpose…

  • fatimahj07has quoted2 years ago
    Her chest felt all hot inside, and she wished with all her might that Mary wouldn’t always be such a good little girl. But she couldn’t let Mary be better than she was

    Mary is really f*cking annoying!

  • fatimahj07has quoted2 years ago
    skin while Pa’s keen knife ripped it off the rabbit meat. “I’ll salt this skin and peg it out on the house wall to dry,” he said. “It will make a warm fur cap for some little girl to wear next winter.”

    💔😭😭😭

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