There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm. - Willa Cather

Some memories are realities and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.

Sometimes you will need to be understood; what you never show to anyone will need companionship. And then you must come to me.

THERE was a curious social situation in Black Hawk. All the young men felt the attraction of the fine, well-set-up country girls who had come to town to earn a living, and, in nearly every case, to help the father struggle out of debt, or to make it possible for the younger children of the family to go to school.