I have to be by myself when I write, and I never know how long it will take. It is like making butter. Sometimes it will come in a few minutes, and sometimes I have to churn away for hours.

That's all that death is ... Just a going away into another country ... Only the separation is harder to bear because there can be no letters to bridge the silence.

we are just as apt to meet the grandmothers as the wolves when we go traveling.

To callow wings no flight is too high to attempt. At sixteen all things are possible.

I've come to believe that every one who reaches the best that life holds for him reaches it through some Desert of Waiting.

Remember, men need laughter sometimes more than food.

The world looks very different to me now at twenty. I have outgrown my early opinions and ideals with my short dresses, just as Mrs. Walton said we would. Now the critics can say 'Thou waitest till thy woman's fingers wrought the best that lay within thy woman's heart.'