At nine o'clock Mr. Shimerda lighted one of our lanterns and put on his overcoat and fur collar. He stood in the little entry hall, the lantern and his fur cap under his arm, shaking hands with us. When he took grandmother's hand, he bent over it as he always did, and said slowly, 'Good woman! ' He made the sign of the cross over me, put on his cap and went off in the dark. As we turned back to the sitting-room, grandfather looked at me searchingly. 'The prayers of all good people are good, ' he said quietly. Willa Cather
You are protected, in short, by your ability to love!
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J.k. Rowling
Life becomes easier and more beautiful when we can see the good in other people.
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Roy T. Bennett
You've a good heart. Sometimes that's enough to see you safe wherever you go. But mostly, it's not.
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Neil Gaiman
Good people see the good and bring out the best in other people.
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Roy T. Bennett
I have written it before and am not ashamed to write it again. Without Wodehouse I am not sure that I would be a tenth of what I am today -- whatever that may be. In my teenage years, his writings awoke me to the...
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Stephen Fry
More Quotes By Willa Cather
Where there is great love, there are always miracles.
Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.
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.
I was something that lay under the sun and felt it, like the pumpkins, and I did not want to be anything more. I was entirely happy. Perhaps we feel like that when we die and become a part of something entire, whether it is...
That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. When it comes to one, it comes as naturally as sleep.
