Odette

“In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular.”
― Kathleen Norris, Dakota: A Spiritual Geography

“Go now and wash yourself first, for the sun will laugh at you if he sees how dirty you are.”
― Johanna Spyri, Heidi

“Will you marry me, vile and abominable girl that you are?

Yes, but, mind, it only to save my neck from being wrung!”
― Georgette Heyer, The Grand Sophy

“The very nature of marriage means saying yes before you know what it will cost. Though you may say the “I do” of the wedding ritual in all sincerity, it is the testing of that vow over time that makes you married.”
― Kathleen Norris, Acedia & Me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer's Life