I'll not punish you for having an imagination.

Well' Francie decided, 'I guess the thing that is giving me this headache is life - and nothing else but'.

Katie had a fierce desire for survival which made her a fighter. Johnny had a hankering after immortality which made him a useless dreamer. And that was the great difference between these two who loved each other so well.

She had heard Papa sing so many songs about the heart; the heart that was breaking - was aching - was dancing -was heavy laden - that leaped for joy - that was heavy in sorrow - that turned over - that stood still. She really believed the heart actually did those things.

All of us are what we have to be and everyone lives the kind of life its in him to live.

It was a good thing that she got herself into this other school. It showed her that there were other worlds beside the world she had been born into and that these other worlds were not unattainable.

She had had the pain; it had been like being boiled alive in scalding oil and not being able to die to get free of it