“What's all the row over at Ben's?" [Mrs. Ide] inquired, placidly, from her comfortable chair."Rustlers, cattle, foremen, sheriffs, and Heaven only knows what," replied Hettie, distractedly.”

“Lori sat way back in her chair and gave him the once-over. "What in the world's gotten into Ben Lawson? jokes? Flirting? Maybe I should sleep with Molly. I think she's got a magic hooha.”

“Having come to the conclusion that there was so much to do that she didn’t know where to start, Mrs Fowler decided not to start at all. She went to the library, took Diary of a Nobody from the shelves and, returning to her wicker chair under the lime tree, settled down to waste what precious hours still remained of the day.”

“What are we all looking for? Happiness? One knows that doesn't last. Distraction, perhaps distraction from the ugly facts: that there is death, there is disease, there is impotence and senility ahead”

“Not only it is annoying, it is distracting from life itself. ~on what TV is.”

“Comfort & peace never come from anything we know about ourselves, but only & always from what we know about Him.”