“I'd rather be stung to death by a bunch of piss ants. ~Synola Harper, You're Busting My Nuptials”

“I swear, when that woman dies, she'll be deader than everybody else.~Pattiecake from Laid Out and Candle Lit”

“I feel like I've been ironing all day in high heels and no brassiere. ~Tizzy Donovan, Laid Out and Candle Lit”

“I have not tired of the wilderness; rather I enjoy its beauty and the vagrant life I lead, more keenly all the time. I prefer the saddle to the streetcar and star-sprinkled sky to a roof, the obscure and difficult trail, leading into the unknown to any paved highway, and the deep peace of the wild to the discontent bred by cities.”

“I craved something so deep, so passionate that it hurt to even think about it. Looking up at that first star, just now sparkling, happy in its dance through my atmosphere, I made my wish, my prayer, my making myself available.”

“say that i starved, that i was lost and wearythat i was burned and blinded by the desert sunfootsore, thirsty, sick with strange diseases,lonely and wet and cold, but that i kept my dream!”

“As to this half-baked pother about my always feeling inferior in the presence of college graduates, that fear is groundless too. I am not nonplussed in the presence of anybody, and I am seldom at a loss with anyone I am interested in.”