There's been a lot to get used to here." Esther laughed. "Isn't that the truth. I don't know if you ever get used to it really. It just gets in your blood so that you can't stand to be anywhere else.

A boy trying out a man's language.

It was as if she had reached into her own pocket and discovered a small pebble, as hard as a diamond, that she had forgotten belonged to her.

Then he returned to Mabel and put his mouth to her ear. I'd never let anything happen to you. You know that, don't you?

Why was it always the woman's fate to pace and fret and wait?

He stood there a moment, listened to the creek, and let the mountain air blow against his face. Even with all this heartache, it was beautiful here.

keep love in your heart. A life without is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead ...

Which comes first: Good or Evil? Usually evil. Good counters.

My life and my legs have been an open book.

I certainly want to be ambitious for women. I'm ambitious for myself. I think women can definitely find areas in which they want to excel.

Sing away sorrow, cast away care.

The way to get unstuck is to start down the wrong path, right now.

We are amused through the intellect, but it is the heart that saves us from ennui.

That's the other thing: Even if you're on medication, you still have to treat your body properly and take care of yourself. The idea that it [ADHD] goes away or you grow out of it isn't true.

Throughout his life Newton must have devoted at least as much attention to chemistry and theology as to mathematics.

Maybe it's because I've never been in politics, but I don't believe that America is run by politicians in Washington. I believe it's run by people like us, in places like this.