“If it's ka it'll come like a wind, and your plans will stand before it no more than a barn before a cyclone”

“It was all right to feel fear, but sometimes a very bad idea to show it.”

“At the end of her life she was aware of heat but not pain. She had time to consider his eyes, eyes of that blue which is the color of the sky at first light of the morning. She had time to think of...”

“A bad song for a night such as this, mayhap, but her heart went its own way without much interest in what her head thought or wanted; always had.”

“A mob always picked its own leaders, and it always picked the right ones.”

“and now, all these years later, it seem to him that the most horrible fact of human existence was that broken hearts mended”

“Misery suffered did not justify misery to come.”

“Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world.”

“I do believe God gave me a spark of genius, but he quenched it in misery.”

“We spent as much money as we could, and got as little for it as people could make up their minds to give us. We were always more or less miserable, and most of our acquaintance were in the same con...”