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Even after I had pounded his ugly head flat, his body kept on coiling and winding, doubling and falling back on itself. — Willa Cather

The thing that I like about being me is that everybody gets a different feeling from me. — Willa Ford

The spark in his eye, which is one's very self, caught the spark in hers that was herself, and for a moment they looked into each other's natures. — Willa Cather

MEN, Charlene said. Leave that to you! Willa quipped. — Ridley Pearson

Aurora is right, Willa said, sounding sad to be agreeing with her. — Amanda Hocking

We all like people who do things, even if we only see their faces on cigar-box lids. — Willa Cather

Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening. — Willa Cather

She had no little vanities, only one big one, and she would never forgive. — Willa Cather

To fulfil the dreams of one's youth; that is the best that can happen to a man. No worldly success can take the place of that. — Willa Cather

That is happiness, to be dissolved into something complete and great. — Willa Cather

It must have been the scarcity of detail in that tawny landscape that made detail so precious. — Willa Cather

New things are always ugly. — Willa Cather

Father Latour began to tell them about his friendly relations with Protestants in Ohio, but they had not room in their minds for two ideas. — Willa Cather

Freedom so often means that one isn't needed anywhere. — Willa Cather

They [her eyes] were big and warm and full of light, like the sun shining on brown pools in the wood. — Willa Cather

The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman. — Willa Cather

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young. — Willa Cather

The way, they were — Willa Cather

The trees and shrubbery seemed well-groomed and social, like pleasant people. — Willa Cather

Success is never so interesting as struggle — Willa Cather

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm. — Willa Cather

Money is a protection, a cloak; it can buy one quiet, and some sort of dignity. — Willa Cather

My major influence was my ten years older sister. — Willa Ford

You must pray for him, my child. It is to such as he that our Blessed Mother comes nearest. — Willa Cather

Power's twin is responsibility ... — Willa Gibbs

Where there is great love, there are always miracles. — Willa Cather

One may have staunch friends in one's own family, but one seldom has admirers. — Willa Cather

Success is less interesting than struggle. There is great pleasure in the effort. — Willa Cather

The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor. — Willa Cather

People can be lovers and enemies at the same time, you know. — Willa Cather

When the eyes of the flesh are shut, the eyes of the spirit are open. — Willa Cather

I tell you there is such a thing as creative hate. — Willa Cather

She was quick to anger, quick to laughter, and jolly from the depths of her soul. — Willa Cather

Youth, art, love, dreams, true-heartedness - why must they go out of the summer world into darkness? — Willa Cather

We will never lose the land. — Willa Cather

Claude Wheeler opened his eyes before the sun was up and vigorously shook his younger brother, who lay in the other half of the same bed. — Willa Cather

The carnations in his coat were drooping with the cold, he noticed, their red glory all over. — Willa Cather

The three kinds of services you generally find in the Episcopal churches. I call them either low-and-lazy, broad-and-hazy, or high-and-crazy. — Willa Gibbs

Be generous with yourself. Don't stop short of splendid things. — Willa Cather

I pronounce ye married, laird and lady. No' 'til death will ye part. And now, Toran," he added with a wink, "ye may kiss the bride. — Willa Blair

It takes a great deal of experience to become natural. — Willa Cather

A burnt dog dreads the fire. — Willa Cather

Old people, who have felt blows and toil and known the world's hard hand, need, even more than children do, a woman's tenderness. — Willa Cather

The pale, cold light of the winter sunset did not beautify - it was like the light of truth itself. — Willa Cather

We sat down and made a nest in the long red grass. Yulka curled up like a baby rabbit and played with a grasshopper — Willa Cather

I'd love to work with Julia Roberts and Johnny Depp or Dick Van Dyke. I love 'Mary Poppins' - when I was little I was obsessed with it. — Willa Holland

How easy it would be to dream one's life out in some cleft in the world. — Willa Cather

Things away from home often look better than they are. — Willa Cather

I enjoyed 'The OC' immensely but I want to expand my horizons more before repeating myself. — Willa Holland

I prefer to be foolish when I feel like it, and be accountable to nobody. — Willa Cather

Paris is a hard place to leave, even when it rains incessantly and one coughs continually from the dampness. — Willa Cather

Some things are best learned in calm, others in storm. — Willa Cather

Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact. — Willa Cather

A work-room should be like an old shoe; no matter how shabby, it's better than a new one. — Willa Cather

Our tree became the talking tree of the fairy tale; legends and stories nestled like birds in its branches. — Willa Cather

Youth, when it is hurt, likes to feel itself betrayed. — Willa Cather

It's all very well to tell us to forgive our enemies; our enemies can never hurt us very much. But oh, what about forgiving our friends? — Willa Cather

Grandfather's farm sometime before daybreak, after — Willa Cather

I had the sense of coming home to myself, and of having found out what a little circle man's experience is. — Willa Cather

During those last weeks of the Bishop's life he thought very little about death; it was the Past he was leaving. The future would take care of itself. — Willa Cather

When people ask me if it has been a hard or easy road, I always answer with the same quotation, the end is nothing, the road is all.Willa Cather — Willa Cather

Some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm. - Willa Cather — Zoraida Cordova

She had certain thoughts which were like companions, ideas which were like older and wiser friends. — Willa Cather

William Tavener never heeded ominous forecasts in the domestic horizon, and he never looked for a storm until it broke. — Willa Cather

He knew he would always remember her, standing there with that expectant, forward-looking smile, enough to turn the future into summer. — Willa Cather

Hunger is a powerful incentive to introspection. — Willa Cather

I wanted to walk straight on through the red grass and over the edge of the world, which could not be very far away. — Willa Cather

A pioneer should have imagination, should be able to enjoy the idea of things more than the things themselves. — Willa Cather

Only a Woman, divine, could know all that a woman can suffer. — Willa Cather

You never really knew a man, he said, until you saw him die — Willa Cather

The truth has a ring of its own. You learn in time to identify it. — Willa Gibbs

But I can't help feeling scared when I think how I will miss you- more than you will ever know. — Willa Cather

Ah, he thought, for one who cannot read--or think--the Image, the physical form of Love! — Willa Cather

Doctrine is well enough for the wise, Jean; but the miracle is something we can hold in our hands and love. — Willa Cather

No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person. — Willa Cather

Apparently the average man sees woman alternatelyas an inferior being and as an angel. — Willa Holland

Miracles surround us at every turn, if we but sharpen our perceptions to them. — Willa Cather

Only the stupid and the phlegmatic should teach. — Willa Cather

There is no God but one God and Art is his revealer; that's my creed and I'll follow it to the end, to a hotter place than Pittsburgh if need be. — Willa Cather

Well, this I know: our best years are when we're working hardest and going right ahead when we can hardly see our way out. — Willa Cather

Some memories are realities and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again. — Willa Cather

I first met Myra Henshawe when I was fifteen, but I had known her about ever since I could remember anything at all. — Willa Cather

With a soft laugh that turned her on even more, he brushed one last kiss to her temple. "Lock up, Willa. Dream of me." And she knew she would. — Jill Shalvis

This land was an enigma. It was like a horse that no one knows how to break to harness, that runs wild and kicks things to pieces. — Willa Cather

The irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the human hand. — Willa Cather

The sincerity of feeling that is possible between a writer and a reader is one of the finest things I know. — Willa Cather

People always think the bread of another country is better than their own. — Willa Cather

Old men are like that, you know. It makes them feel important to think they are in love with somebody. — Willa Cather

All Southern women wished of their menfolk was simply to be 'like Paris handsome and like Hector brave'. — Willa Cather

Life began for me, when I ceased to admire and began to remember. — Willa Cather

On the farm the weather was the great fact, and men's affairs went on underneath it, as the streams creep under the ice. — Willa Cather

Have the last word ma'm," he said cheerfully, "It's a lady's priviledge. — Willa Cather

There was a new kind of strength in the gravity of her face, and her colors still gave her that look of deep-seated health and ardor. — Willa Cather

I like long floaty clothes that don't restrict me, and I live in flat boots. — Willa Holland

The supreme virtue in art is soul, perhaps it is the only thing which gives it the right to be. — Willa Cather

The great fact was the land itself, which seemed to overwhelm the little beginnings of human society that struggled in its sombre wastes. — Willa Cather

I only want impossible things," she said roughly. "The others don't interest me. — Willa Cather

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"It's morning and I still love you. — Sarah Addison Allen

Let people go on talking as they like, and we will go on living as we think best. — Willa Cather

What do you care more about? The kids or your hair? — Ridley Pearson