I first met Myra Henshawe when I was fifteen, but I had known her about ever since I could remember anything at all.
Willa CatherThe great fact in life, the always possible escape from dullness, was the lake. The sun rose out of it, the day began there; it was like an open door that nobody could shut. The land and all its dreariness could never close in on you. You had only to look at the lake, and you knew you would soon be free.
Willa CatherIt does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of.
Willa Cather