“ Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it. Rachel Field
“ Oh, well, it might look like a patterned world, laid out in prim design, but to those living there it could never be so simple. They were as alive as she: that old peasant contriving to outwit the col… Rachel Field
“ The more one suffered and lived, the more one had known of joy and grief, the deeper the response must be if an artist were great enough to summon it. Rachel Field
