“I tell people she’s a pile of apples, and that I can’t wait to get in cider.”
“The tarter the apple, the tastier the cider.”
“I can tell she’s upset, but I can’t be bothered to say anything. Some days are just like that.”
“I know the look of an apple that is roasting and sizzling on the hearth on a winter's evening, and I know the comfort that comes of eating it hot, along with some sugar and a drench of cream... I know how the nuts taken in conjunction with winter apples, cider, and doughnuts, make old people's tales and old jokes sound fresh and crisp and enchanting.”
“Because I can’t live without Della. I don’t want to. She’s the reason I get up in the mornings - Woods”
“He is all pine and I am apple orchard.My apple trees will never get acrossAnd eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.He only says, "Good fences makegood neighbors.”