Quotes & Sayings About Chiggers

When Doris had died so long ago, it was weeks before Mary could think clearly and remember what she was supposed to do the next minute and then the minute after that. Even though Doris had shown Mary how to get rid of the chiggers that burrowed under the skin or how to add potatoes to bread to make it heavy so it would fill a stomach faster, she had never explained how she had survived the death of a husband and the loss of a child. Parents never told their real secrets. They never let you know how they lived in the spaces between working and cooking and running after children and counting dollars. — Marisa Silver

I love Fayetteville. I like hills and vistas and hardworking people and fighting snow in winter and chiggers in the summer. — Ellen Gilchrist

One thing worse than self-hatred is chiggers. — Edward Abbey

It didn't do to ignore men. The majority of them were harmless, with nothing worse than a low capacity to irritate - they were worse than chiggers but not as bad as bedbugs, in her view. — Larry McMurtry