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1 " People keep on getting married. Evidently hope is eternal in the human breast. "
― Sherwood Anderson , Death in the Woods and Other Stories
2 " I may stay here in this town another day or I may go on to another town. No one knows where I am. I am taking this bath in life, as you see, and when I have had enough of it I shall go home feeling refreshed. "
3 " You see it is likely that, when my brother told the story, that night when we got home and my mother and sister sat listening, I did not think he got the point. He was too young and so was I. A thing so complete has its own beauty. "
4 " She is always pretending she loves me, but look at her now. Am I in her thoughts? Is there a tender look in her eyes? Is she dreaming of me as she walks along the streets? "
5 " Wait and wait. Most people's lives are spent waiting. "
6 " Most of us live our lives like toads, sitting perfectly still, under a plantain leaf. We are waiting for a fly to come our way. When it comes out darts the tongue. We nab it.That is all. We eat it. "
7 " How dirty she was, how thin, what a wild look she had! I have never seen a wilder-looking creature. Her eyes were bright. They were like the eyes of a wild animal. "
8 " There are men everywhere who talk and talk, saying nothing. I am afraid I am becoming one of that kind. "
9 " It was a cold day but the sun was out and the trees were like great bonfires against gray distant fields and hills. "
10 " All good New Orleanians go to look at the Mississippi at least once a day. At night it is like creeping into a dark bedroom to look at a sleeping child--something of that sort--gives you the same warm nice feeling, I mean. "
11 " It might be that women who have beennurses should not marry physicians. They have too much respect for physicians, are taughtto have too much respect "
12 " It hadn't shocked the old woman, not much. She had got past being shocked early in life. "
