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

The trouble is you almost have to marry a man before you can find out the sort of wife he needs; and usually it's exactly the sort you are not.

Yet the summer which was to change everything was coming nearer every day. When boys and girls are growing up, life can't stand still, not even in the quietest of country towns; and they have to grow up, whether they will or no. That is what their elders are always forgetting.

Dr. Howard Archie had just come up from a game of pool with the Jewish clothier and two traveling men who happened to be staying overnight in Moonstone.

Even the wicked get worse than they deserve.

People live through such pain only once. Pain comes again—but it finds a tougher surface.

Where there is great love there are always miracles.