Alexandra sighed. "I have a feeling that if you go away, you will not come back. Something will happen to one of us, or to both. People have to snatch at happiness when they can, in this world. It is always easier to lose than to find. What I have is yours if you care enough about me to take it.
Willa CatherPeople have to snatch at happiness when they can, in this world. It is always easier to lose than to find.
Willa CatherThey ravaged neither the rivers nor the forest, and if they irrigated, they took as little water as would serve their needs. The land and all that it bore they treated with consideration; not attempting to improve it, they never desecrated it.
Willa CatherThere was a new kind of strength in the gravity of her face, and her colors still gave her that look of deep-seated health and ardor.
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