A girl who made no mistakes about the right shade of lipstick would always land on her feet.
And of course there was no help for it, except recalling bits of conversations she had overheard from time to time about marriage. That’s what knitting groups and sewing groups were for, wasn’t it? Co...
At sixty miles per hour, you could pass our farm in a minute, on County Road 686, which ran due north into the T intersection at Cabot Street Road.
Compared with Iowa, Kansas City was a strange world. The Halls where she worked was in the most elegant place she’d ever been at that point, a made-up town for shopping, a Fifth Avenue on the prairie...
Do you think I would want to live under a government that you ran or set up? It’s all very nice to say you’re an anarchist, but you only want anarchy for yourself. For the rest of us, you want to make...
He had accepted that if you were a bookish person the events in your life took place in your head.
He trusted only Devers, and why was that? Devers said, We’re going here, and they went there. Devers said, Expect this and that, and this and that came to pass. But the rumor was that Ike didn’t like...
He was turning out to be one of those men whose interest diminished as they got to know you. You got into this pattern of trying to be interesting by revealing more and more of yourself, like a salesm...
He’d said, Remember that Chinese curse, ‘May you live in interesting times’? The dairy farmer’s curse is, may you have an interesting herd of cows.
Hmm, What did I love? I think all the scents. Mama's lilac trees, and the wild iris in the fields, and rain on the breeze on a hot day. Apple and pear blossoms. The hay just cut. The mix of odors in t...
Hmmph, said Mrs. Walker, or rather, without speaking, she launched this hmmph into the air of the room and allowed it to float there.
How could she pursue the transcendence and virtue of the intellectual life when her mind had disappeared into her body like a sponge into a basin of ink? Which did not mean,
I loved the house the way you would any new house, because it is populated by your future.
I suspected that there were things he knew that I had been waiting all my life to learn.
If you lived in the same place long enough, everything reminded you of everything else.
In this flirtation he was conducting, he had had to rely entirely on his personality, never a good idea.
In truth Mr Jonas Silk was as niggardly as he was jealous, and my sister Beatrice had as much interest in Kansas as she did in the czar of all the Russias, and so my brother Mr. Horace Silk worked out...
She had felt a surge of fear so strong
Sometimes these days Dean felt like picking up the phone and calling his buddy Michael Jordan and chortling with him over how he’d played Continental Dairy Industries off against National Milk, but of...
There is something I have noticed about desire, that it opens the eyes and strikes them blind at the same time.
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