Was life always like that? she wondered. A game of hide and seek in which you only occasionally found the person you wanted to be?

It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside.

Betsy returned to her chair, took off her coat and hat, opened her book and forgot the world again.

You might as well learn right now, you two, that the poorest guide you can have in life is what people will say.

In silence the three of them looked at the sunset and thought about God.

Isn't it mysterious to begin a new journal like this? I can run my fingers through the fresh clean pages but I cannot guess what the writing on them will be.

The wastes of snow on the hill were ghostly in the moonlight. The stars were piercingly bright.

Good things come, but they're never perfect; are they? You have to twist them into something perfect.

I cannot remember back to a year in which I did not consider myself to be a writer, and the younger I was the bigger that capital 'W.

Betsy. The great war is on but I hope ours is over. Please come home. Joe.

The silence in the room had width, height, depth, mass and substance.

BLARGLE SLORG NOTH HARGHLE FTHAGN! You know. The usual.

Once upon a time there was a widow who had two daughters. The elder was so much like her, both in looks and character, that whoever saw the daughter saw the mother.

The housing market it at a record high that its never been at also.

The heart which finds life in material wealth is usually certain to go farther and seek for more in the satisfaction of base and sullen appetites.

Goodness makes greatness truly valuable, and greatness make goodness much more serviceable.

We're either going to save the world or no one will be saved.

As time goes on, it becomes increasingly evident that the rules which the mathematician finds interesting are the same as those which Nature has chosen.

In any relationship there are certain doors that should never be opened. The bathroom door, for example.

It's real difficult to save when you don't have any money.

Just call in at the torturer on your way out. See when he can fit you in.