“These sudden joys have sudden endings. They burn up in victory like fire and gunpowder.”
“Thousands of lives were suddenly ended by evil, despicable acts of terror. The pictures of airplanes flying into buildings, fires burning, huge structures collapsing, have filled us with disbelief, terrible sadness and a quiet, unyielding anger.”
“It is only barbarous nations who have a sudden growth after a victory”
“For sudden Joys, like Griefs, confound at first. ”
“You never like it to happen, for something as hopeful and sudden as a January thaw to come to an end, but end it does, and then you want to have some quilts around.”
“There is in writing the constant joy of sudden discovery, of happy accident.”