“You have grown a little beard, I said.You see it is not true that one can't change.”
“You can't eat hope,' the woman said.You can't eat it, but it sustains you,' the colonel replied.”
“His beard might once have reached to his waist, but his waist had grown off and left his beard high and dry.”
“You West Virginia girls are one tough breed," he said.You got that right," I told him.”
“Thirteen years, one night.Nine months. One small baby will deliver true love.I can't wait to see you.”
“But I, alas, do not know how to see sheep through the walls of boxes. Perhaps I am a little like the grown-ups. I have had to grow old.”