We eat the year away. We eat the spring and the summer and the fall. We wait for something to grow and then we eat it.

The sight of one's own heart is degrading; people are not meant to look inward - that's why they've been given bodies, to hide their souls.

I have often thought that with any luck at all I could have been born a werewolf, because the two middle fingers on both my hands are the same length, but I have had to be content with what I had.

All our land was enriched with my treasures buried in it, thickly inhabited just below the surface with my marbles and my teeth and my colored stones, all perhaps turned to jewels by now, held together under the ground in a powerful taut web which never loosened, but held fast to guard us.

The number of people who expected Mrs. Hutchinson to win a Bendix washer would amaze you.

There had not been this many words sounded in our house for a long time, and it was going to take a while to clean them out.

in all the world there is not someone who does not believe something.