[He] fell right into the oldest conviction in the world-- that the girl you are in love with can't possibly be anything but true and honest.

Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners.

For the most part people are not curious except about themselves.

There are as many worlds as there are kinds of days, and as an opal changes its colors and its fire to match the nature of a day, so do I.

So many old and lovely things are stored in the world's attic because we don't want them around us and we don't dare throw them out.

For there are two possible reactions to social ostracism - either a man emerges determined to be better, purer, and kindlier or he goes bad, challenges the world and does even worse things. The last is by far the commonest reaction to stigma.

(Suicide) takes some doing, with maybe pain and maybe hell.