Why couldn't I be more like other girls my age? Take Mrs. Brown's niece. She spent every waking hour sizing up this beau or that, stitching tea towels and petticoats and putting aside a little each month for a set of Spode Buttercup dishes.

The wren and the nightingale sound nothing alike, but think how dull the world would be without the songs of both birds.-Miss Kanagawa

The truth can both lift up and knock down.

I gotta pound the keys for the ideas to flow.

There is nothing like the occasional outburst of profanity to calm jangled nerves.

There should be fireworks at last, when a dream dies.

Hattie.' Grace patted my arm. 'My cows sing better than you do.