“ You don't seem to understand," I whispered. "It's Christmas relationships that are worrying Carol and me so! It worries us dreadfully! Oh, of course we understand all about the Little Baby Christ! And… Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
“ I wish I could have lived just one day when the world was new. I wish—I wish I could have reaped just one single, solitary, big Emotion before the world had caught it and—appraised it—and taxed it—and… Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
“ Incidentally her head ached and her shoulders ached and her lungs ached and the ankle-bones of both feet ached quite excruciatingly. But nothing of her felt permanently incapacitated except her noble… Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
“ If there's—one person on the face of this earth who makes me sick it's the ninny who calls a thing 'improbable' because it happens to be outside his own special, puny experience of life. Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
“ Provide for her Future—if you can!—That's my motto!—But a man's just a plain bum who don't provide for his own Past! Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
“ Then Night came down like the feathery soot of a smoky lamp, and smutted[9] first the bedquilt, then the hearth-rug, then the window-seat, and then at last the great, stormy, faraway outside world. Bu… Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
“ Why, I've been all over the world, I tell you, and fairly loafed and lolled in every conceivable sort of ease and luxury, but the Soul of me—the wild, restless, breathless, discontented soul of me—nev… Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
“ As far as I can reckon, a woman can stand absolutely anything under God's heaven that she knows; but she just up and can't stand the littlest, teeniest, no-account sort of thing that she ain't sure of… Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
“ If Beauty is excuse enough for Being, it sure takes Plainness then to feel the real necessity for—Doing. Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
“ And while you and the rest of your kind are battling together—year after year—for this special privilege of being 'bored to death,' the 'real girl' that you're asking about, the marvelous girl, the gi… Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
“ Supplementing the far, remote Glory-of-God expression in his face, the glory-of-doughnuts shone suddenly very warmly. Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
“ Now everybody who knows anything at all knows perfectly well that even a business letter does not deserve the paper on which it is written unless it contains at least one significant phrase that is wo… Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
