There's so much spring in the air- there's so much lazy sweetness in your heart.

the cracked plate has to be retained in the pantry, has to be kept in service as a household necessity. It can never be warmed on the stove nor shuffled with the other plates in the dishpan; it will not be brought out for company but it will do to hold crackers late at night or to go into the ice-box with the left overs.

When she saw him face to face their eyes met and brushed like birds’ wings. After that everything was all right, everything was wonderful, she knew that he was beginning to fall in love with her.

Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

So he tasted the deep pain that is reserved only for the strong, just as he had tasted for a little while the deep happiness.

The farmers may be the backbone of the country, but who wants to be a backbone?

unloved women have no biographies-- they have histories