When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason had left them. When it has left a place where we have always found it, it is like shipwreck; we drop from security into something malevolent and bottomless.
Willa CatherThe pale, cold light of the winter sunset did not beautify - it was like the light of truth itself.
Willa CatherYou must not begin to fret about the successes of cheap people. After all, what have they to do with you?
Willa CatherThe two friends stood for a few moments on the windy street corner, not speaking a word, as two travelers, who have lost their way, sometimes stand and admit their perplexity in silence. (O Pioneers!)
Willa Cather