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"I wonder if ever again Americans can have that experience of returning to a home place so intimately known, profoundly felt, deeply loved, and absolutely submitted to?...........We have had too many divorces, we have consumed too much transportation, we have lived too shallowly in too many places."

"Death's greatest power is not that it can make you die, it's that it can make you not want to live".

Gothic novels - they get you through some of the tough days.

"It was a beneficent wind. And because it sang softly on the ridges and stirred the whole valley to life, it seemed full of romance and enchantment."

"Unfortunates, who ought to begin with God, do not have any hope in him till they have exhausted all other means of deliverance."
(Chapter 15)