Sarah Orne Jewett Quotations

Love isn't blind; it's only love that sees!

the mysterious moment of death proves to be a moment of waking. How one longs to take it for one's self!

There is something out of gear about graded schools and all that. Memory is developed at the expense of what in general we are pleased to call thought and character.

There was a patient look on the old man's face, as if the world were a great mistake and he had nobody with whom to speak his own language or find companionship.

Such a nice day - out all day up in the Carter Notch direction, trout-fishing, with the long drive there and the long drive home again in time for supper. It was a lovely brook and I caught seven good trout and one small one - which eight trout-persons you should have for your breakfast if only you were near enough. It was not alone the fishing, but the delightful loneliness and being out of doors.

Life was resumed, and anxious living blew away as if it had not been. I could not breathe deep enough or long enough. It was a return to happiness.

There's some herb that's good for everybody, except for them that thinks they're sick when they ain't.

Satisfaction, even after one has dined well, is not so interesting and eager a feeling as hunger.

Write it as it is, don't try to make it like this or that. You can't do it in anybody else's way-you will have to make a way of your own.

Don't scatter your fire! You are a prose writer: stick to your own tool!