Dorothy

“and I had to look hard to see her face, which I meant always to carry with me; the closest, realest face, under all the shadows of women’s faces, at the very bottom of my memory.”
― Willa Cather, My Ántonia

“I liked to watch a play with Lena; everything was wonderful to her, and everything was true. It was like going to revival meetings with someone who was always being converted.”
― Willa Cather, My Ántonia

“As I sat down to my book at last, my old dream about Lena coming across the harvest-field in her short skirt seemed to me like the memory of an actual experience. It floated before me on the page like a picture, and underneath it stood the mournful line: ‘Optima dies ... prima fugit.”
― Willa Cather, My Ántonia

“I had the sense of coming home to myself, and of having found out what a little circle man’s experience is.”
― Willa Cather, My Ántonia