“After all, moms were appreciated only on Mother's Day. That's why they invented it. So they could treat you like a household appliance the rest of the year.”

“His wide mouth was firm as his lips met her own, and like an explorer planting a stake in new soil, he claimed her right then for the rest of her days.”

“In passion we trust, for passion finds infinity and says that is how many ways I can exist.”

“We don't know what we don't know.”

“It's the curiosity that drives me. It's making a difference in the world that prevents me from ever giving up.”

“The stunted pines elude capturein a thousand sidetracked increments.The wind will never understand them.Like us it is forced to go on.”

“If he hadn't been looking at Phil and had been looking at Viola Kersey he would have been a surprised young man. There was a look of startled dismay on her face as she realized what she'd done. And she didn't like it. For one instant the appealing little woman looked for all the world like the household variety of virago who's sweet as all get out as long as guests are present and ready to snatch the family bald-headed as soon as the door is closed.”