All really nice girls wonder when men don't try to kiss them. They know they shouldn't want them to and they know they must act insulted if they do, but just the same, they wish the men would try.

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

It's not because I've -what is the phrase? -'swept you off your feet' by my -er- ardor?

Somewhere, on the long road that wound through those four years, the girl with her sachet & dancing slippers had slipped away & there was left a woman with sharp green eyes, who counted pennies & turned her hands to many menial tasks, a woman to whom nothing was left from the wreckage except the indestructible red earth on which she stood.

Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything, for 'Tis the only thing in this world that lasts, 'Tis the only thing worth working for, worth fighting for - worth dying for.

The Irish are the damnedest race. They put so much emphasis on so many wrong things.

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