... a woman who has been a nun is never anything else.
Death deceives relations often, and doctors sometimes, but the patient - never.
When lightning strikes, the mouse is sometimes burned with the farm.
it is the possibilities which are the most terrible things in life.
Curses are children of hate; they belong to the wrong family! Prayers are better than curses!
Human beings don't show, any more than cities at dusk, their real necessities! And yet if you looked -- past the circle of outside lights, through the street walls still standing -- into the want and emptiness within!