Dorothy

“Men are all right for friends, but as soon as you marry them they turn into cranky old fathers, even the wild ones. They begin to tell you what’s sensible and what’s foolish, and want you to stick at home all the time. I prefer to be foolish when I feel like it, and be accountable to nobody.”
― Willa Cather, My Ántonia

“I sat helpless to prevent the closing of that chapter of idyllic love, dreading the return of the young man whose ineffable happiness was only to be the measure of his fall. I”
― Willa Cather, My Ántonia

“Ain’t it wonderful, Jim, how much people can mean to each other?”
― Willa Cather, My Ántonia

“I think that this place can strip a person of human traits. It can make one desire nothing and hope for even less.”
― Gemma Liviero, Broken Angels