Clementine Sing

“Granma said I had done right, for when you come on something that is good, first thing to do is share it with whoever you can find; that way, the good spreads out to where no telling it will go. Which is right. I”
― Forrest Carter, The Education of Little Tree

“His spirit was warped by bitter vindictiveness and puerile self-commiseration, and he spent his days in scorn of the labour that brought him bread and in pitiful devotion to the labour that brought him only disappointment, writing interminable scores which demanded of the orchestra everything under heaven except melody.”
― Willa Cather, The Troll Garden: Short Stories

“Lack of power and opportunity passes off too often for virtue.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Dust Tracks on a Road

“But, mate, my heart is sore for Christian diet. You mightn't happen to have a piece of cheese about you, now? No? Well, many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese--toasted, mostly--and woke up again, and here I were.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson