Educating a beautiful woman is like pouring honey into a fine Swiss watch: everything stops.

Sometimes I wonder about the Creator of the Universe.

My ancestors came over from Germany about the time of the Civil War and one of them lost a leg and went back to Germany.

The death of a library, any library, suggests that the community has lost its soul.

Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.

She upset Billy simply by being his mother. She made him feel embarrassed and ungrateful and weak because she had gone to so much trouble to give him life, and to keep that life going, and Billy didn't really like life at all.

We'd been apart so long--I'd been dead so long," she said in English. "I thought surely you'd built a new life, with no room in it for me. I'd hoped that." "My life is nothing but room for you." I said. "It could never be filled by anyone but you.