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The best cure for sadness is doing something.

Life is short and must be lived.

That man makes me feel like I have my bonnet on backwards.

Home at last, and my little ranch house looks mighty plain, but it is home to me and I am glad to see it.

Udell was an ordinary man, I thought, but a man with an extraordinary way of thinking. That was truly worth more than gold: extraordinary thinking.

How is it possible for me to feel so young and so old at the same time?

That woman grinds my grits, and that's a fact.

I make believe all my dear ones are not gone, just out of my line of sight beyond some curtain or cluster of people, or tree

A lad who wears his every thought upon his face is asking for someone to change his opinions.

How fragile our lives are anyway. How quickly things can change forever.

A clock only turns one direction

One thing I know, whispered Savannah, is that if he was quiet, and you were quiet, and neither of you minded it, then you are in love.

You cannot apologize for my feelings. You may apologize for your actions

Hard work is still peace compared to what can worry a person on the inside.

I wondered someday if the devil might wake up and see he got the wrong girl, what will happen then?

Don't leave me, Jack, I said.
Not ever, he whispered back.

Maybe part of passing that test was a marker for where I've been, but it feels more like a pointer for something I'll never reach

It's easy to act honorable when things are coming along and all your pastures are green.Sarah Agnes Prine

It's not fair, men get to go off and chase around the country and get medals for doing stupid things and women get to sit home and worry.

A woman is a fool that lives from penny to farthing and n'er looks to the possibility of loss.

Sarah, he says, it isn't like I'm some old codger you have to coddle. Well, I told him, I want you healthy, to be sure that someday you are.

Some people sense is wasted on and that's purely a fact.

I realized that poverty was a kind of captivity.

I am not sorry, but this has hurt my heart and spirit more than all the other trials, for being forsaken is worse than being killed. (Sept 5, 1881)

A move is a way of lightening your load and starting things new.

The best thing a girl can be is a good wife and mother. It is a girl's highest calling. I hope I am ready.

[Children] just cannot be sad too long, it is not in them, as children mourn in little bits here and there like patchwork in their lives.

I wish the Lord would just knock me over with kindness and goodness and simple purity, because I don't seem to be getting the knack of it on my own.

Blue Horse said to me ... wisdom is not a path, it is a tree.

We are a noisy and blessed little family

Education doesn't keep a person from being a fool, and the lack of it doesn't keep a person from being intelligent.

I rode toward Rudolfo Maldonado's house, planning to murder him before he got his morning shave.

It seems to me that any time there are men making a war, somewhere there are women and children at home waiting and worrying.

Every season has its beauty.

But there is no easy way to mourn a child.

I thought I was leading them, but the truth was, I was just following them, holding up a lantern.

A nice girl should never go anywhere without a loaded gun and a big knife." ~ Sarah Agnes Prine

Oh Papa. I always felt like I had a hold on things when there was Papa to turn to.

It is strange to have this little girl who is my own flesh and blood and yet she seems so separate from me.

Getting out of bed is a good way to leave your troubles behind.

Our axles don't match but our wheels are turning.