Any garment which is cut to fit you is much more becoming, even if it is not so splendid as a garment which has been cut to fit somebody not of your stature.

Emma McChesney was engaged in that nerve-wracking process known as getting things out of the way. When Emma McChesney aimed to get things out of the way she did not use a shovel; she used a road-drag.

Christmas is not a season. It is a feeling.

Bizarre as was the name she bore, Kim Ravenal always said she was thankful it had been no worse.

Does one eat peanuts at a ball game?' 'It ain't hardly legal if you don't.

Whoever said love conquers all was a fool. Because almost everything conquers love - or tries to.

To be alive is a fine thing. It is the finest thing in the world, though hazardous. It is a unique thing. It happens only once in a lifetime. To be alive, to know consciously that you are alive, and to relish that knowledge -- this is a kind of magic. Or it may be a kind of madness, exhilarating but harmless.