"I was standing in our dining-room thinking..." - Quote by Mark Twain

“To create man was a quaint and original idea, but to add the sheep was tautology.”

“...fry me an optimist for breakfast.”

“Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog.”

“Everything that belonged to her husband made her weep again: his tasseled slippers, his pajamas under the pillow, the space of his absence in the dressing table mirror, his own odor on her skin. A vague thought made her shudder: "The people one loves should take all their things with them when they die.”

“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”

“With every friend I love who has been taken into the brown bosom of the earth a part of me has been buried there; but their contribution to my being of happiness, strength and understanding remains to sustain me in an altered world.”

“The loss of love is the loss of all rights, even though one had them all.”

“She knew nothing, but she had everything that he had lost.”

“Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday; I can't be sure.”