He shook hands with Margaret. He knew it was the first time their hands had met, though she was perfectly unconscious of the fact.

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

But the cloud never comes in that quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it.

He had not an ounce of superfluous flesh on his bones, and leanness goes a great way towards gentility.

A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.

I look at [books] as a child looks at cakes - with glittering eyes and a watering mouth, imagining the pleasure that awaits him.

There is nothing like wounded affection for giving poignancy to anger.

Anticipation was the soul of enjoyment.

Those who are happy and successful themselves are too apt to make light of the misfortunes of others.

I dare not hope. I never was fainthearted before; but I cannot believe such a creature cares for me.

But the future must be met, however stern and iron it be.

you can tell who you are the way people respond to you.

I had no idea that things would change so rapidly, so drastically.

I think ever since Numbers ended, I've been trying to find a way to get back in a situation like that. It was lovely to drive in traffic with other people going to their jobs every day.

Better a serpent than a stepmother!

Thank God for novelists. Thank God there are people willing to write everything down. Otherwise, so much would be forgotten.

The most defenseless tenderness and the bloodiest of powers have a similar need of confession. Western man has become a confessing animal.

It often takes suffering and lost in order to remind us of how precious life is.

America is deeply rooted in Negro culture: its colloquialisms; its humor; its music.

Deal-making goes on with any job.

Winter is ruthless and sometimes sullen and murderous. The wild winter North has gulped ten thousand summers down nor left a froth of sunshine on its lips.