I first met Myra Henshawe when I was fifteen, but I had known her about ever since I could remember anything at all.

In this world people have to pay an extortionate price for any exceptional gift whatever.

There is often a good deal of the child left in people who have had to grow up too soon.

You must not begin to fret about the successes of cheap people. After all, what have they to do with you?

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

In little towns, lives roll along so close to one another; loves and hates beat about, their wings almost touching.

An artist's saddest secrets are those that have to do with his artistry.