Don't leave inferences to be drawn when evidence can be presented.

there are times when life's ends are so raveled that reason and sense cry out that we stop and gather them together again before we can proceed

I listened, vaguely knowing now that I had committed some awful wrong that I could not undo, that I had uttered words I could not recall even though I ached to nullify them, kill them, turn back time to the moment before I had talked so that I could have another chance to save myself.

Love grows from stable relationships, shared experience, loyalty, devotion, trust.

I was leaving the South to fling myself into the unknown . . . I was taking a part of the South to transplant in alien soil, to see if it could grow differently, if it could drink of new and cool rains, bend in strange winds, respond to the warmth of other suns and, perhaps, to bloom

Make up your mind, Snail! You are half inside your house, And halfway out!

It was not a matter of believing or disbelieving what I read, but of feeling something new, of being affected by something that made the look of the world different.