To my way of thinking and working, the greatest service a piece of fiction can do any reader is to force him to lay it down with a higher ideal of life than he had when he took it up.
Gene Stratton-PorterSometimes it seems to me that the more we get hurt in this world the decenter it makes us.
Gene Stratton-PorterI don't so much mind the falling, but I do seem to select the hardest spots to light on.
Gene Stratton-PorterDo you know that being a stranger is the hardest thing that can happen to any one in all this world?
Gene Stratton-Porter