Most places we leave in childhood grow less, not more, fancy.

He wished he could arrange a maiming as a kind of moral lesson

I think now that is the nature of hymns-they make us want to repeat them...they are a part of any service, and often the only part of a funeral service, that makes us feel everything is acceptable.

He also knew that rivals are best unmanned by being ignored.

You can't learn everything you need to know legally.

I’m not afraid, but I’m very nervous.

The history of a city was like the history of a family—there is closeness and even affection, but death eventually separates everyone from each other. It is only the vividness of memory that keeps the dead alive forever; a writer’s job is to imagine everything so personally that the fiction is as vivid as our personal memories.