“There's a use for everything and everything has it's use.”

“Everything, as you well know . . . cannot always be sweetness and light.”

“Every well-written book is a light for me. When you write, you use other writers and their books as guides in the wilderness. ”

“Everything, as you well know (having lived in this world long enough to have figured out a thing or two for yourself), cannot always be sweetness and light.”

“It's hard not to immediately fall in love witha dog who has a good sense of humor.”

“the story is not a pretty one. there is violence in it. And cruelty. But stories that are not pretty have a certain value, too, I suppose. Everything, as you well know (having lived in this world long enough to have figured out a thing or two for yourself), cannont always be sweetness and light.”

“And Edward was surprised to discover that he was listening. Before, when Abilene had talked to him, everything had seemed so boring, so pointless. But now, the stories Nellie told struck him as the most important thing in the world and he listened as if his life depended on what she said." (page 69)”