“Keep it, keep it!" I answered. "You are very welcome to it! It is only a couple of small things, doesn't amount to anything—about everything I own in the world.”

“You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all day, every day. You have to keep remembering all the bad things. I would have to make a list, a very, very long list and make sure I hated the people on it the right amount. That I did a very proper job of hating too.”

“...all I'm saying is that worrying about it isn't going to fix anything. The only thing we can do is keep on with our own small thing and try hard to be good and to make life better, and know that if it all ends tomorrow that we were at least happy.”

“Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything.”

“I figure that if a secret has an answer, it'll out on its own if it's meant to, and if it doesn't then maybe providence has a better reason for keeping it hidden than you think.”

“I tried to keep my distance, but my world doesn't work without you in it.”