The number of times he'd had to pinch his nose to keep his soul in so that he'd make no noise while peering through the parlor keyhole...

That's why it's called a practice. We have to practice a practice if it is to be of value.

Neva ought to smile more. It breaks her anxiety into tiny pieces of joy you want to gather up and hand back to her in your palms, as if to say, “See what you can make when you loose the reins.

Sometime in their lives, everybody wanted to go home.

There are always people willing to commit unspeakable human atrocity in exchange for a little power and privilege.

Fresh peach pie can lift a bullying reprobate into apologetic courtesy; I have watched it happen.

It would be a blunder of the first magnitude for the British to be a party, in any way whatsoever, to the division of India.

It's like our country is being run by a bunch of bad alcoholic dads right now.

We become willing servants to the good by the bonds their virtues lay upon us.

Heaven's great artillery.

It all comes down, as it must, to the desires of individual men. Oh, and women too of course, bless their empty little heads.