When you collect marine animals there are certain flat worms so delicate that they are almost impossible to catch whole for they will break and tatte… - John Steinbeck

Perhaps that might be the way to write this book — to open the page and to let the stories crawl in by themselves.

Doc would listen to any kind of nonsense and change it for you to a kind of wisdom.

That was a time when a man had the right to be burried by his own son an' a son had the right to burry his own father.

She gathered some brown seaweed and made a flat damp poultice of it, and this she applied to the baby's swollen shoulder, which was as good a remedy as any and probably better than the doctor could have done. But the remedy lacked his authority because it was simple and didn't cost anything.