It was such a pleasure to sink one's hands into the warm earth, to feel at one's fingertips the possibilities of the new season.

... for home is a magnet that lures back even its most abstracted children.

Lil had always believed that a person's duty was to make the best of the hand they were dealt. No use wondering what might have been, she used to say, all that matters is what is.

Happiness in life is not a given, it must be seized.

Quite simply the book and I were meant to be together.

Sometimes, Edie, a person's feelings aren't rational. At least, they don't seem that way on the surface. You have to dig a little deeper to understand what lies at the base

In each man's heart there lies a hole. A dark abyss of need, the filling of which takes precedence over all else.