Miss Lottie is the town’s most impoverished resident. She’s an old woman who lives at the edge of town in a ramshackle building with her disabled son, John Burke. While the circumstances of Miss Lottie’s life seem particularly challenging, she still makes time to grow and nurture her dazzling marigolds. It would be easy for Miss Lottie to be bitter or resentful, but instead she cultivates beauty within poverty, courageously seeking to make her decrepit home, which the children call a “monument to decay,” a better place.
Miss Lottie Quotes in Marigolds
The Marigolds quotes below are all either spoken by Miss Lottie or refer to Miss Lottie. 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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Miss Lottie’s house was the most ramshackle of all our ramshackle homes.
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I gazed upon a kind of reality which is hidden to childhood. The witch was no longer a witch but only a broken old woman who had dared to create beauty in the midst of ugliness and sterility.
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Miss Lottie Quotes in Marigolds
The Marigolds quotes below are all either spoken by Miss Lottie or refer to Miss Lottie. 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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Marigolds
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Miss Lottie’s house was the most ramshackle of all our ramshackle homes.
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Explanation and Analysis:
I gazed upon a kind of reality which is hidden to childhood. The witch was no longer a witch but only a broken old woman who had dared to create beauty in the midst of ugliness and sterility.
