“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.”

“Feel fee to be a usin' anythin' in the house, an' if there be anythin' thet ya be needin', make a list. I go to town most saturdays fer supplies, an' I can be a pickin' it up then. When ya feel mor...”

“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.”