I read more of Treasure Island to him, and it pleased him a great deal. It seems to me that there are so many lonely people in this world, and so little of life is kind and good. In a way, I am thankf...
I said, Well, looks like he's pretty ornery. I wonder where he gets it?Jack just shrugged and kissed my cheek, and then whispered in my ear, He gets it from his mother.
I think my Mama and Savannah must be special people in the Lord's eyes, as they have gone about doing generous and loving things without even a second thought. For me, it seems like the only thing tha...
I thought I was leading them, but the truth was, I was just following them, holding up a lantern.
The best thing a girl can be is a good wife and mother. It is a girl's highest calling. I hope I am ready.
Remembered something Blue Horse said to me back before Gilbert was born. He said wisdom is not a path, it is a tree. At the time I was too busy to give it much thought, so I nodded politely but didn’t...
Well, he perked right up and said, Five hundred dollars? Mrs. Elliot, I believe we can be of service to you after all.I doubt it, I told him. I made this money with the sweat of my brow and the labor...
He plunges into the middle of them and it is a frightening thing. He must be fierce and wicked and brave all at the same time. I'm glad he's on our side.
My life feels like a book left out on the porch, and the wind blows the pages faster and faster, turning always toward a new chapter faster than I can stop and read it.
We'll I'd like to see the woman that wouldn't defend her kin any way possible, and see what she's made of. Anyone who hasn't got some backbone has no business trying to live in the Territories.
Education doesn't keep a person from being a fool and the lack of it doesn't keep a person from being intelligent.
Children are a burden to a mother, but not the way a heavy box is to a mule. Our children weight hard on my heart, and thinking about them growing up honest and healthy, or just living to grow up at a...
But there is no easy way to mourn a child.
My rosebush shouts beauty to the world.
A woman who dreams of a good home with a man who holds for her only a poor love is putting a fifty-dollar saddle on a twenty-dollar horse. She’d be far better off single than riding with him.
A woman who dreams of a good home with a man who holds for her only a poor love is putting a $50 saddle on a $20 horse. She'd be far better off single than riding with him.
A woman is a fool that lives from penny to farthing and n'er looks to the possibility of loss.
Mrs. Faulkner had sidled up to me and said Good day, Mrs. Elliot?I just looked at her, and I saw in her eyes that she was wanting some kind of approval for her boy because of his career ahead, and she...
It seems as if I can only thing if I write my journal, it just connects the part of my head that is busy doing things with the part that is busy thinking about everything else. I know all these pepole...
A clock only turns one direction
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