The only genius that's worth anything is the genius for hard work.
... maybe that's all anyone who writes or paints or sculpts is doing anyway -- excusing themselves for refusing to live like other people or be like them.
Success is often harder to take than failure.
Half the joys and half the sorrows of this world are discovered in bed.
Marygreen did not change in sixteen years. It had changed little enough in the past two years.
It seemed that up until this moment she had been only half alive.