“These times are too progressive. Everything has changed too fast. Railroads and telegraphs and kerosene and coal stoves -- they're good to have but the trouble is, folks get to depend on 'em.”
― The Long Winter
― The Long Winter
“I think of love as a force of nature-as strog as the sun, as necessary, as impersonal, as gigantic, as impossible, as scorching as it is warming,as drought-making as it is life-giving.”
― Lighthousekeeping
― Lighthousekeeping
“The true way to live is to enjoy every moment as it passes, and surely it is in the everyday things around us that the beauty of life lies.”
― Laura Ingalls Wilder, Farm Journalist: Writings from the Ozarks
― Laura Ingalls Wilder, Farm Journalist: Writings from the Ozarks
“The continuous narrative of existence is a lie. There is no continuous narrative, there are lit-up moments, and the rest is dark. When you look closely, the twenty-four hour day is framed into a moment; the still-life of the jerky amphetamine world. That woman-a pieta. Those men, rough angels with an unknown message. The children holding hands, spanning time. And in every still-life, there is a story, the story that tells you everything you need to know.”
― Lighthousekeeping
― Lighthousekeeping
“We'd never get anything fixed to suit us if we waited for things to suit us before we started.”
― By the Shores of Silver Lake
― By the Shores of Silver Lake
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