Dare I? Of course I don't. But I'm going to anyhow because I have no choice.

I used to feel guilty about spending morning hours working on a book; about fleeing to the brook in the afternoon. It took several summers of being totally frazzled by September to make me realize that this was a false guilt. I'm much more use to family and friends when I'm not physically and spiritually depleted than when I spend my energies as though they were unlimited. They are not. The time at the typewriter and the time at the brook refresh me and put me into a more workable perspective.

She began to feel the sense of wonderful elation that always came to her when beauty took hold of her and made her forget her fears.

People become trustworthy when they are trusted.

Oh child, your language is so utterly simple and limited that it has the affect of extreme complication. -Aunt Beast

To marry is the biggest risk in human relations that a person can take.

Like it or not, we either add to the darkness of indifference and out-and-out evil which surrounds us or we light a candle to see by.