“You know I don’t listen to market gossip,” she began,“but it is hard not to hear it when my daughter’s name is mentioned.”

“I find that when I come out of the library I’m in what I call the library bliss of being totally taken away from the distractions of li”

“Say something worth the words.”

“It's a rare book that wins the battle against drooping eyelids.”

“We do not need such things to help us to see God,” I countered. “We have His Word, and that isenough.”

“If redwoods are the backbone of California, oaks are of England.”

“He could not tell all of the California pines apart, the gray pine from the coulter, the bushop from the knobcone and the Monterey.”

“It is not easy to let someone go, even when they have said unforgivable things to you.”

“Warp threads are thicker than the weft, and made of a coarser wool as well. I think of them as like wives. Their work is not obvious - all you can see are the ridges they make under the colorful weft threads. But if they weren't there, there would be no tapestry. Georges would unravel without me.”

“You know I don’t listen to market gossip,” she began,“but it is hard not to hear it when my daughter’s name is mentioned.”

“It was not a house where secrets could be kept easily.”