“He must be suffering, too. She had noted the weary sag of his shoulders, the quivering lips, the tear- filled eyes. Somehow she had never thought of him as hurting- of being capable of understandin...”

“My name be Clark Davis", he hurried on,"an it peers to me thet you an' me be in need of one another".”

“If she remember right, people who had a God didn't seem to hold to drinking' an' beating' their women. With a little luck maybe she wouldn't have to put up with that anyway.”

“She sat silent, looking straight ahead. What did he care about the hot sun on her head? What did she care? Nothing worse could possibly happen to her.”

“The way to peace is not love, but Christ.”

“Marriage cannot thrive on left-over attention, it has to get your best effort!”

“When you love, you forgive; when you forgive, you love.”

“With each embrace, I poured my soul into his, till his and mine were the same.”

“The atmosphere of a date is everything.”

“You will regret the moments you didn't let love in a hell of a lot more than the moments you did.”