“In a way, looking back, it seemed a long, long time since she had been eighteen, but in another way her memories were so clear and vivid that it seemed like yesterday. Time was an accordion, all the air squeezed… — 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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