“She was moved to a profound but pleasurable melancholy by the evidence that human life is brief and long survived by the material things it had believed itself to possess.” — Helen Hooven Santmyer Copy Share Image
Time--our youth--it never really goes, does it? It is all held in our minds. — Helen Hooven Santmyer Copy Share Image
I have no plans for the money but it'll be awfully nice to have it. — Helen Hooven Santmyer Copy Share Image
But surely, if you trust God, you can believe the bad moments pass, and the good memories are worth enough. — Helen Hooven Santmyer Copy Share Image
“When we get presidents with brains it's purely by accident. Who was ever selected for his brains? We choose them for other qualities, or… — Helen Hooven Santmyer Copy Share Image
[Time was] an accordion, all the air squeezed out of it as you grew old. — Helen Hooven Santmyer Copy Share Image
“In a way, looking back, it seemed a long, long time since she had been eighteen, but in another way her memories were so… — Helen Hooven Santmyer Copy Share Image
“She was moved to a profound but pleasurable melancholy by the evidence that human life is brief and long survived by the material things… — Helen Hooven Santmyer Copy Share Image
“But Calvinists have never been pacifists: they have always been all too ready for a fight.” — Helen Hooven Santmyer Copy Share Image
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