Insomnia’s different,” I said. It was hard to explain this to people. “You know the light that comes on when you open the refrigerator door? Just imagine it stays on all the time, even after you close the door. That’s what it’s like in my head. The light stays on.

Mr. Shepherd, ye cannot stop a bad thought from coming into your head. But ye need not pull up a chair and bide it sit down." - Mrs. Brown

You know things are bad when a woman without any legs and who recently lost two of her own kids feels sorry for you.

Maybe he's been in Africa so long he has forgotten that we Christians have our own system of marriage, and it is called Monotony.

I know people. Most have no earthly notion of the price of a snow-white conscience.

This will be Great Mam's last spring. Her last June apples. Her last fresh roasting ears from the garden.

...our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.