Sometimes we see the Civil War in movies and imagine these neatly aligned rows of men with muskets, walking in line to shoot each other. In reality the things that fascinated me were how absolutely ruthless and violent so many engagements were, how much suffering and how men were not prepared.

I would much prefer their minds to be engaged in the deadly arts than clouded with dreams of marriage and fortune, as your own so clearly is!

Movie characters rarely get to think out loud or talk very much about their emotions. Instead they have to, very briefly, show their feelings through their action or through dialog.

We pore through libraries, dissecting the classics" Henry Sturges- vampire

The more precious His gift, the more anxious God for its return.

I decided that it was more important to laugh than to eat.

Her only fault is that she lacks sense enough to avoid falling in love with such a fool as I!