And it may be that love sometimes occurs without pain or misery.
You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.
It takes a year, nephew... a full turn of the calendar, to get over losing someone.
And I think that's important, to know how the water's gone over the dam before you start to describe it. It helps to have been over the dam yourself.
We're all strange inside. We learn how to disguise our differences as we grow up.
No wonder, he thought, that the panhandle people were a godly lot, for they lived in sudden, violent atmospheres. Weather kept them humble.