Look," she said, and just that. That was the only time she opened her mouth, because she wanted to say something unnecessary, something that wouldn't be important or memorable, so I wouldn't have to remember her voice.
We looked at the veil then, the thing that had turned her this way, and we smiled.


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That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great.
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The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor.
WILLA CATHER
Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and ...
WILLA CATHER
The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on ...
WILLA CATHER
When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason h...
WILLA CATHER
The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one's own.
WILLA CATHER
All the intelligence and talent in the world can't make a singer. The voice is a wild thing. It ...
WILLA CATHER
Where there is great love, there are always wishes.
WILLA CATHER
The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power comi...
WILLA CATHER
The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficu...
WILLA CATHER
You know a lot of times you'll find girls in a club are jaded to the other girls in the club. Th...
WILLA FORD
The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one’s own.
WILLA CATHER
It's so much fun to play the bad girl. Everybody has that little side of them they never really ...
WILLA HOLLAND
Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most...
WILLA CATHER
It's amazing how much of a bodily experience being scared is. It doesn't take very long of h...
WILLA FITZGERALD
The world is little, people are little, human life is little. There is only one big thing — desire...
WILLA CATHER
Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a sing...
WILLA CATHER
It's by understanding me, and the boys, and mother, that you have helped me. I expect that is the on...
WILLA CATHER
I'd love to work with Julia Roberts and Johnny Depp or Dick Van Dyke. I love 'Mary Poppins&#...
WILLA HOLLAND
I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.
WILLA CATHER
To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent.
WILLA CATHER
There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.
WILLA CATHER
She used to drag her mattress besider her low window and lie awake for a long while, vibrating with ...
WILLA CATHER
Trees were so rare in that country, and they had to make such a hard fight to grow, that we used to ...
WILLA CATHER
The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman.
WILLA CATHER
Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact.
WILLA CATHER
The fashion world has always been part of my life.
WILLA HOLLAND
Sometimes I wonder why God ever trusts talent in the hands of women, they usually make such an infer...
WILLA CATHER
Years ago there were historians who 'just sit and know;' that was the expression.
WILLA SKINNER
Miracles seem to rest, not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us ...
WILLA CATHER
Where there is great love there are always miracles. -Willa Cather.
WILLA CATHER
He had the uneasy manner of a man who is not among his own kind, and who has not seen enought of the...
WILLA CATHER
I wanted it more than any of the other girls, I think. It was obvious that only the ones who were wi...
WILLA FORD
There's no telling what they will do with these IDs. Unless someone has a close look at them, you ca...
WILLA BECKLEY
My major influence was my ten years older sister.
WILLA FORD
I'm not a cheerleader. I'm not trying to pretend to be sweet and then come out and be bad. This is w...
WILLA FORD
Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and ...
WILLA CATHER
The old man smiled. 'I shall not die of a cold, my son. I shall die of having lived.
WILLA CATHER
Where there is great love, there are always miracles.
WILLA CATHER
It's all very well to tell us to forgive our enemies; our enemies can never hurt us very much. But o...
WILLA CATHER
Avarice, he assured them, was the one passion that grew stronger and sweeter in old age.
WILLA CATHER
I think that certain emotions can compromise you when you’re at war. If you stop to mourn the dead...
WILLA STRAYHORN
Oh, he’s an old friend from the West,” said Eden easily. “I won’t introduce you, because he ...
WILLA CATHER
Adapting a Judy Blume book is something I really wanted to do, and you couldn't grow up in the &...
WILLA HOLLAND
We were examining a big hole with two entrances. The burrow sloped into the ground at a gentle angle...
WILLA CATHER
I'm so proud of this show and I'm really stoked that fans were so enthusiastic about the sho...
WILLA HOLLAND
It's been a lot of fun getting to work with Tracy Middendorf, who plays my mom. As an actor, it&...
WILLA FITZGERALD
Whatever we had missed, we possessed together the precious, the incommunicable past.
WILLA CATHER
Miracles... seem to me to rest not so much upon... healing power coming suddenly near us from afar b...
WILLA CATHER
Ah, he thought, for one who cannot read--or think--the Image, the physical form of Love!
WILLA CATHER
One might almost say that an apparition is human vision corrected by divine love. I do not see you a...
WILLA CATHER
Prayers said by good people are always good prayers
WILLA CATHER
There was a basic harmony between Antonia and her mistress [Mrs. Harling]. They had strong, independ...
WILLA CATHER
Have the last word ma'm," he said cheerfully, "It's a lady's priviledge.
WILLA CATHER