It does seem so pleasant to talk with an old acquaintance who knows what you know. I see so many new folks nowadays who seem to have neither past nor future. Conversation has got to have some root in the past, or else you have got to explain every remark you make, and it wears a person out.
In the life of each of us there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness. - Sarah Orne Jewett
In the life of each of us there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness.
- Sarah Orne Jewett
You must find your own quiet center of life, and write from that to the world. - Sarah Orne Jewett
You must find your own quiet center of life, and write from that to the world.
Love isn't blind; it's only love that sees! - Sarah Orne Jewett
Love isn't blind; it's only love that sees!
A harbor, even if it is a little harbor, is a good thing, since adventurers come into it as well as go out, and the life in it grows strong, because … - Sarah Orne Jewett
A harbor, even if it is a little harbor, is a good thing, since adventurers come into it as well as go out, and the life in it grows strong, because …
The growth of true friendship may be a lifelong affair. - Sarah Orne Jewett
The growth of true friendship may be a lifelong affair.
A story should be managed so that it should suggest interesting things to the reader instead of the author's doing all the thinking for him, and sett… - Sarah Orne Jewett
A story should be managed so that it should suggest interesting things to the reader instead of the author's doing all the thinking for him, and sett…
This was one of those perfect New England days in late summer where the spirit of autumn takes a first stealing flight, like a spy, through the ripen… - Sarah Orne Jewett
This was one of those perfect New England days in late summer where the spirit of autumn takes a first stealing flight, like a spy, through the ripen…
I've found that people who look at things as they are, and not as they wish them to be, are the ones who succeed. - Sarah Orne Jewett
I've found that people who look at things as they are, and not as they wish them to be, are the ones who succeed.
It seems to me like stealing, for men and women to live in the world and do nothing to make it better. - Sarah Orne Jewett
It seems to me like stealing, for men and women to live in the world and do nothing to make it better.
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