Will asked Miss Beasley what kind of man Glendon Dinsmore…

“The value of affection going up when it was in short supply”

— LaVyrle Spencer

She writhed between him and the door and he moved his mouth to her ear, whispering hoarsely, "Abbie, I'm going to take you to…

— LaVyrle Spencer

“Yessir, it's a hard taskmaster, that guilt. I say, feel it, and wriggle a little bit if you have to, but then put it…

— LaVyrle Spencer

“A good logger does not raze the forest, but only thins it.”

— LaVyrle Spencer

“You...you loved her, didn't you, Pa?” Theodore sighed, and kept staring at the horses' rumps. “Oh, I loved her, all right,” he answered. “A…

— LaVyrle Spencer

Lizzy, Will thought. Lizzy P. 'You n me gonna be buddies, darlin'. He stretched one hand to Elly's hair, and circled Donald Wade's rump…

— LaVyrle Spencer

“Will fired the shoes like two orange grenades into the alley, pushed her outside and offered in parting, "If you're in heat, Lula, go…

— LaVyrle Spencer

“he was supposed to be reading, but it was impossible. She had done something”

— LaVyrle Spencer

“It seems you are the kind of squaw those Indians would like to have, but make sure they don't! One who keeps her men…

— LaVyrle Spencer

She's had so little love, Jesse thought, I will drown her in it for the rest of her life.

— LaVyrle Spencer

“A man does what must be done,' Karl said, trying to concentrate on his board-making. "But you never complain." 'What good would complaining do?…

— LaVyrle Spencer

Touch me, he thought, my arm, my hand, a finger. Let me know it's all right for me to have these feelings for you.

— LaVyrle Spencer

“Sometimes we must do things, plenty scared or not. To be able to say afterward,'I was plenty scared'makes a man a bigger man, not…

— LaVyrle Spencer

“Could you say it once," he entreated, "like they say people do?" Her heart beat like the wings of an eagle, taking her soaring…

— LaVyrle Spencer

“Life must not be squandered. A person got from life what he put ino it.”

— LaVyrle Spencer