youth, when it is hurt, likes to feel itself betrayed.

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

[Dawn] is always such a forgiving time. When that first cold, bright streak comes over the water, it's as if all our sins were pardoned; as if the sky leaned over the earth and kissed it and gave it absolution.

Every artist makes herself born. You must bring the artist into the world yourself.

Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.

Alexandra sighed. "I have a feeling that if you go away, you will not come back. Something will happen to one of us, or to both. People have to snatch at happiness when they can, in this world. It is always easier to lose than to find. What I have is yours if you care enough about me to take it.

Success is less interesting than struggle. There is great pleasure in the effort.