Well, thought Winnie, crossing her arms of the windowsill, she was different. Things had happened to her that were hers alone, and had nothing to do with them. It was the first time. And no amount of...
Nėra gyvenimo be mirties. Taigi mes negalime sakyti, kad gyvename. Mes tiesiog 'esame'...
Do not fear death, but rather the unlived life. You don't have to live forever. You just have to live.
The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning.
Afterward, when she thought about it, it seemed to Winnie that the next few minutes were only a blur. First she was kneeling on the ground, insisting on a drink from the spring, and the next thing she...
You've got nothing that lasts, you know. That's not the first town that ever stood there. There was one before that, and one before that, and one before that one, on back for 900 years. But this tree...
The way I see it, Miles went on, it's no good hiding yourself away, like Pa and lots of other people. And it's no good just thinking of your own pleasure, either. People got to do something useful if...
That’s what us Tucks are, Winnie. Stuck so’s we can’t move on. We ain’t part of the wheel no more. Dropped off, Winnie. Left behind. And everywhere around us, things is moving and growing and changing...
Well, thought Winnie, crossing her arms on the windowsill, she different. Things had happened to her that were hers alone, and had nothing to do with them. It was the first time. And no amount of tel...
They've really begun the war, he said to himself. And all over a word in a dictionary, the ninnies!
The ownership of land is an odd thing when you come to think of it. How deep, after all, can it go? If a person owns a piece of land, does he own it all the way down, in ever narrowing dimensions, til...
Nothing ever seems interesting when it belongs to you—only when it doesn't.
Like all magnificent things, it's very simple.
I'm not exactly sure what I'd do, you know, but something interesting - something that's all mine. Something that would make some kind of difference in the world. It'd be nice to have a new name, to s...
He knows you? said Mae, her frown deepening. But you didn’t call out to him, child. Why not?I was too scared to do , said Winnie honestly.Tuck shook his head. I never thought we’d come to the place w...
Sitting relaxed with his back against the trunk was a boy, almost a man. And he seemed so glorious to Winnie that she lost her heart at once.
He looked solid, like an oar, whereas Jesse—well, she decided, Jesse was like water: thin, and quick.
With white dawns and glaring moons, and sunsets smeared with too much color.
Here, child, said Mae hastily Hide your eyes. Boys? Are you decent? What'd you put on to swim in? I got Winnie Foster in the house? For goodness sake ma said Jesse emerging from the stairwell . You t...
Life's got to be lived, no matter how long or short, she said calmly. You got to take what comes. We just go along, like everybody else, one day at a time.