“Good-by, Good-by, world. Good-by, Grover's Corners... Mama and Papa. Good-by to clocks ticking... and Mama's sunflowers. And food and coffee. And new-ironed dresses and hot baths...and sleeping and...”

“People are meant to go through life two by two. Taint natural to be lonesome.”

“Yes, now you know. Now you know! That's what it was to be alive. To move about in a cloud of ignorance; to go up and down trampling on the feelings of those...of those about you. To spend and waste...”

“I can't look at everything hard enough!”

“Only it seems to me that once in your life before you die you ought to see a country where they don't talk in English and don't even want to.”

“Emily: Oh, Mama, look at me one minute as though you really saw me. Mama, fourteen years have gone by. I'm dead. You're a grandmother, Mama! Wally's dead, too. His appendix burst on a camping trip ...”

“Everybody has a right to their own troubles.”

“Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.”

“The trouble with a kitten is that eventually it becomes a cat.”

“When I get logical, and I don't trust my instincts - that's when I get in trouble.”