“Beneath their wary smiles, the people were warm and friendly. They had known sorrow and loss, but their spirit survived.”
“She smiled at him, though her hazel-green eyes were wary beneath the brim of a sodden hat. Right at that moment, staring at her across the hall, Gideon Shaw, cynic, hedonist, drunkard, libertine, fell hopelessly in love.”
“In making friends, she was wary of people who foster dependency and feed on it. She had been involved with a few--the blind attract them, and they are the enemy.”
“But if the while I think on thee, dear friend,All losses are restored and sorrows end.”
“There are some times...when the love for people is strong and warm like a sorrow.”
“I've known people whose faces rested naturally in a smile and I'm certain their lives were much different because of that.”