

“Alexandra sighed. "I have a feeling that if you go away, you will not come back. Something will happen to one of us, or to both. People have to snatch at happiness when they can, in this world. It is always easier to lose than to find. What I have is yours, if you care enough about me to take it.”
― O Pioneers!
― O Pioneers!

“Would you like an adventure now, or would like to have your tea first?”
― Peter Pan
― Peter Pan

“I'd have liked to have you for a sweetheart, or a wife, or my mother or my sister--anything a woman can be to a man. The idea of you is part of my mind; you influence my likes and dislikes, all my tastes, hundreds of times when I don't realize it. You really are a part of me.”
― My Ántonia
― My Ántonia

“Isn’t it queer: there are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before; like the larks in this country, that have been singing the same five notes over for thousands of years.”
― O Pioneers!
― O Pioneers!

“Whatever we had missed, we possessed together the precious, the incommunicable past.”
― My Ántonia
― My Ántonia
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