It was true, she thought, that the big things awe us but the little things touch us.

Things last so much longer than people.

They are the most painful tears in the world ... the tears of the aged ... for they come from dried beds where the emotions have long burned low.

A person may encircle the globe with mind open only to bodily comfort. Another may live his life on a sixty-foot lot and listen to the voices of the universe.

It takes a small town to keep you humble.

In 1846 the prairie town of Oak River existed only in a settler's dream.

Sometime in their lives, everybody wanted to go home.