Please, God,' Ruth would pray, 'don't let me be competitive. Let me realize what a privilege it is to study. Let me remember that knowledge must be p….

Loneliness had taught Harriet that there was always someone who understood - it was just so often that they were dead, and in a book..

But she had to know words. She had to know everything..

This is worse than Hollywood, he thought. A girl comes in with a pork chop and I write a song for her..

For an instant she felt his touch on her cheek then he stepped back. There that was my ration for all eternity. People have died for less I dare say..

Then he kissed her. It was a very long time before he let her go. When he did, she looked up at him, hurt and bewilderment on her face. 'Why did you ….

Slowly, Anna put up a hand to his muzzle and began to scratch that spot behind the ear where large dogs keep their souls..

It's true that adventures are good for people even when they are very young. Adventures can get in a person's blood even if he doesn't remember havin….

Shadows are cool and peaceful places for those whose minds are overstocked with treasure..

I want to live like music sounds."- Ruth.

The sisters worked from dawn to dusk. One of them was an idiot; she started shaving her legs and marrying tax inspectors, so she was no good..

She was so intelligent that she could think herself into beauty. Intelligence...they don't talk about it much, the poets, but when a woman is intelli….

Herr Altenburg, I can't; I have vertigo.' And Marek looked at him: 'All right - I'll get the chemist to fix me something..

When you're sad, my Little Star, go out of doors. It's always better underneath the open sky..

Not a frog, I hope?” he asked…She shook her head. “No. And if it was I wouldn’t kiss it, I promise you. I might kiss a prince if I could be sure he’d….

That's silly, Anna," said the Honorable Olive. "Being afraid is silly, you know it is..

She's like snow in Russian," said Anna. "Snow in the evening when the sun sets and it looks like Alpengluhen, you know? And if snow had a scent it wo….

It was a heavenly summer, the summer in which France fell and the British Expeditionary Force was evacuated from Dunkirk. Leaves were never such an i….

One must not judge other cultures by the standars of one's one,' said Aunt Hilda.

And so they played some of the world's loveliest piano music - the exiled homesick girl, the humiliated, tired old man. Not properly. Better than tha….

She stood looking carefully at the labeled portraits Ursala had put up: Little Crow, Chief of the Santees, Geronimo, last of the Apaches, and Ursala'….