Love itself draws on a woman nearly all the bad luck in the world

Freedom so often means that one isn't needed anywhere.

If youth did not matter so much to itself, it would never have the heart to go on.

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.

Men are all right for friends, but as soon as you marry them they turn into cranky old fathers, even the wild ones. They begin to tell you what's sensible and what's foolish, and want you to stick at home all the time. I prefer to be foolish when I feel like it, and be accountable to nobody.

Setting ... is accident. Either a building is part of a place, or it is not. Once that kinship is there, time will only make it stronger.

In Haverford on the Platte the townspeople still talk of Lucy Gayheart.