I think of you more often than of anyone else in this part of the world. I'd have liked to have you for a sweetheart, or a wife, or my mother or my s… - Willa Cather

I'd have liked to have you for a sweetheart, or a wife, or my mother or my sister — anything a woman can be to a man. The idea of you is part of my mind; you influence my likes and dislikes, all my tastes, hundreds of times when I don't realize it. You really are a part of me.

Ain’t it wonderful, Jim, how much people can mean to each other?

He was entirely rid of his nervous misgivings, of his forced aggressiveness, of the imperative desire to show himself different from his surroundings. He felt now that his surroundings explained him.

Religion is different from everything else; because in religion seeking is finding.