She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.

I have known the joy and pain of friendship. I have served and been served. I have made some good enemies for which I am not a bit sorry. I have loved unselfishly, and I have fondled hatred with the red-hot tongs of Hell. That's living.

..she began to stand around the gate and expect things. What things? She didn't know exactly. Her breath was gusty and short. She knew things that nobody ever told her. For instance, the words of the trees and the wind. .. She knew the world was a stallion rolling in the blue pasture of ether. She knew that God tore down the old world every evening and built a new one by sun-up. It was wonderful to see it take form with the sun and emerge from the gray dust of its making.

If you kin see de light at daybreak, you don't keer if you die at dusk. It's so many people never seen de light at all.

[Proverbs] are short sayings made out of long experience.

anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!

If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.