Everybody's mainspring is different. And I want to say this - folks whose mainsprings are busted are better dead.

I wonder if anyone but me realizes what goes on in that head back of your deceptively sweet face.

If he's forgotten me, I'll make him remember me. I'll make him want me again.

I loved something I made up, something that's just as dead as Melly is. I made a pretty suit of clothes and fell in love with it. And when Ashley came riding along, so handsome, so different, I put that suit on him and made him wear it whether it fitted him or not. And I wouldn't see what he really was. I kept on loving the pretty clothes—and not him at all.

Hush," he said. "I am asking you to marry me. Would you be convinced if I knelt down?

Crackers are short on sparkle.

Burdens are for shoulders strong enough to carry them.