Willa Cather, My Ántonia Quotes

I guess everybody thinks about old times, even the happiest people.

Trees were so rare in that country, and they had to make such a hard fight to grow, that we used to feel anxious about them, and visit them as if they were persons.

I prefer to be foolish when I feel like it, and be accountable to nobody.

I only knew the schoolbooks said he "died in the wilderness, of a broken heart.""More than him has done that, " said Antonia sadly, and the girls murmured assent.

Some memories are realities and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.