Jetta Carleton
Born
Holden, MO, The United States
Died
December 28, 1999
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“Suddenly it seemed to me that I looked back from a great distance on that smile and saw it all again - the smile and the day, the whole sunny, sad, funny, wonderful day and all the days that we had spent here together. What was I going to do when such days came no more? There could not be many; for we were a family growing old. And how would I learn to live without these people? I who needed them so little that I could stay away all year - what should I do without them?”
― The Moonflower Vine
― The Moonflower Vine
“Yet none of these things gave him confidence. All they gave him was egotism, which is less the conviction of one's worth than the desire for that conviction.”
― The Moonflower Vine
― The Moonflower Vine
“And maybe it wasn't his love that brought him back, but hers. How seductive being loved could be.”
― Clair de Lune
― Clair de Lune
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