“And if he had judged her harshly? If her life were a simple rosary of hours, her life simple and strange as a bird's life, gay in the morning, restless all day, tired at sundown? Her heart simple and willful as a bird's heart?”

“Lastly, she pictured to herself how this same little sister of hers would, in the after-time, be herself a grown woman; and how she would keep, through all her riper years, the simple and loving heart of her childhood: and how she would gather about her other little children, and make their eyes bright and eager with many a strange tale, perhaps even with the dream of Wonderland of long ago: and how she would feel with all their simple sorrows, and find a pleasure in all their simple joys, remembering her own child-life, and the happy summer days.”

“It was as simple as that - they met. As simple as only beautiful things can be beautiful, as only life-changing things, turning-point things, can be simple.("For The Rest Of Her Life")”

“Man, life was complicated. But the truth was simple. He was her home. He was where she belonged.”

“Sarah had always envied her sister for having a philosophy of life so simple it fit on a throw pillow.”

“For what she'd asked him, in her real voice, a voice that only the heart could hear, was a simple question:Have you ever once loved another human creature so much that her life was more precious to you than your own?And his heart had replied in words just as plain:"Yes," it said, and the power of it nearly blinded her.”