Only sometimes when we pick and choose among the rules we discover later that we have set aside something precious in the process.

- Helen Simonson

You cannot run away from what’s in your heart.

- Helen Simonson

My neighbor Alice Pierce is fond of singing folk music to her garden plants. Thinks it makes them grow or something. The Major had often wondered how…

- Helen Simonson

We are all small-minded people, creeping about the earth grubbing for our own advantage and making the very mistakes for which we want to humiliate o…

- Helen Simonson

I tell myself it does not matter what one reads-favorite authors, particular themes-as long as we read something. It is not even important to own the…

- Helen Simonson

But it's not enough to be in love. It's about how you spend your days, what you do together, who you choose as friends, and most of all it's what wor…

- Helen Simonson

Passion is all very well, but it wouldn't do to spill the tea.

- Helen Simonson

The world is full of small ignorances. We must all do our best to ignore them and thereby keep them small, don't you think

- Helen Simonson

Life does often get in the way of one's reading.

- Helen Simonson