I'm so sorry - we had this cottage up in Lake Maxinkuckee, in Culver. I've thought so often of the poor Pottawattomies we took this land away from. They must have loved it so.

What is flirtatiousness but an argument that life must go on and on and on?

No one can amount to a damn in the arts if he becomes sweetly reasonable, seeing all sides of a picture, forgiving all sins.

It was very exciting for her, taking his dignity away in the name of love.

Oh, God — the lives people try to lead. Oh, God — what a world they try to lead them in.

With words alone, Gail Godwin has created an important piece of music about a love which death can only increase and deepen. Yes, and Frances Halsband's illustrations are a haunting countermelody.

That specific remedy for the worldwide epidemic of depression is a gift called the blues.