Never pass up new experiences [Scarlett], They enrich the mind." - Rhett Butler

Once, when she was six years old, she had fallen from a tree, flat on her stomach. She could still recall that sickening interval before breath came back into her body. Now, as she looked at him, she felt the same way she had felt then, breathless, stunned, nauseated.

And if we folks have a motto, it's this: 'Don't holler - smile and bide your time.' We've survived a passel of things that way, smiling and biding our time, and we've gotten to be experts at surviving.

Sometimes Frank sighed, thinking he had caught a tropic bird, all flame and jewel color, when a wren would have served him just as well. In fact, much better.

Times were so hard it was difficult to feed and lodge humans, much less animals.

Now you are beginning to think for yourself instead of letting others think for you. That’s the beginning of wisdom.

I only know that I love you. That's your misfortune.