Useless as a pulled tooth.

it's been my experience that the first few days of married life women are blind because they want to be and after that because they have to be.

Enemies are an indication of character.

Suspicion is like the rain. It falls on the just and on the unjust.

[To her frequently needed plumber:] How would you like to be adopted? I'm sure it would be cheaper.

Death was a beginning and not an end; it was the morning of the spirit. Tired bodies lay down to sleep and their souls wakened to the morning, rested; the first fruits of them that slept.

The author lives with one foot in an everyday world and the other feeling about anxiously for a foothold in another more precarious one.