I make myself keep on loving you, despite what you do. I’ve got to love you. We all have to love you, and believe inyou, and think you are looking out for our best interests....

And thank you for saying all of that, and for loving me, for you haven’t gone unloved, or unadmired, yourself.

It’s better not to make a promise than to make one you can’t keep.

God, He didn’t write the scripts for the puny little players downhere.We wrote them ourselves-with each day we lived, each word we spoke,each thought we etched on our brains. And Momma had written herscript, too.And...

I brushed it until it shone and looked somewhat like it used to look,only far thinner, and less glorious.

The Bible said, as Chris quoted one memorable day, there was a time foreverything. I figured my time for happiness was just ahead, waitingfor me.

Children are very wiseintuitively; they know who loves them most, and who only pretends.

just on the verge ofbecoming a woman, and in these three years and almost five months, I’dreached maturity. I was older than the mountains outside. The wisdomof the attic was in my bones, etched on...

I remembered Grandmere Catherine used to tell me your first impressions about people usually prove to be the truest because your heart is the first to react.

Little girls get hurt when they play grown-up games.

Beauty thinks it needs no talent and can feed on itself, so it soon dies.

You know what I miss the most about my youth? My gullibility. It’s nice believing in everything and everyone. It makes you feel secure, but be strong and depend more on yourself and you’ll be...