For an instant she felt his touch on her cheek then he stepped back. There that was my ration for all eternity. People have died for less I dare say.

When you're sad, my Little Star, go out of doors. It's always better underneath the open sky.

And so they played some of the world's loveliest piano music - the exiled homesick girl, the humiliated, tired old man. Not properly. Better than that.

Loneliness had taught Harriet that there was always someone who understood - it was just so often that they were dead, and in a book.

To show too much joy in a place such as this would be unseemly but, as he padded toward her, his tail was extended in a manner which would make wagging possible should all go as expected.

Shadows are cool and peaceful places for those whose minds are overstocked with treasure.

I want to live like music sounds."- Ruth

The sisters worked from dawn to dusk. One of them was an idiot; she started shaving her legs and marrying tax inspectors, so she was no good.

She was so intelligent that she could think herself into beauty. Intelligence...they don't talk about it much, the poets, but when a woman is intelligent and passionate and good.

But she had to know words. She had to know everything.

Slowly, Anna put up a hand to his muzzle and began to scratch that spot behind the ear where large dogs keep their souls.

The sight of so many ruins destroys any desire to build shanties

With the amount of money I have, it's difficult raising children the way I was raised.

It's not annoying if only a couple of people come up. If a bunch of them crowd around me, it's annoying.

I think I have the best of both worlds because I am a woman, but I'm also a tomboy.

When it comes to fashion or any high art, you have to have a combination of delicacy, along with taste.

To call a man evangelical who is not evangelistic is an utter contradiction.

I've done comedy most of my career, which I love, but I wanted to expand.

If you only believe when it's easy, you don't really believe.

Great men have great dogs.

Heaven does without doing through its purity, Earth does without doing through its calmness.