the most all-around, practical, long-wearing illusions are the ones that you weave yourself.
As millions of women have done before me, I pulled domesticity over my head like a blanket and found I was still cold.
When there's a lot of it around, you never want it very much.
Life is so very simple when you have no facts to confuse you.
When you're little, time stretches obligingly, and vacation is forever.
Kitchens were different then, too - not only what came out of them, but their smells and sounds. A hot pie cooling smells different from a frozen pie thawing.