“Do you know, Àntonia, since I've been away, I think of you more often than of any one else in this part… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“THERE was a curious social situation in Black Hawk. All the young men felt the attraction of the fine, well-set-up country girls… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“Father Latour began to tell them about his friendly relations with Protestants in Ohio, but they had not room in their minds… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Men are all right for friends, but as soon as you marry them they turn into cranky old fathers, even the wild… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“I'd have liked to have you for a sweetheart, or a wife, or my mother or my sister--anything a woman can be… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“It's by understanding me, and the boys, and mother, that you have helped me. I expect that is the only way one… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“Once giving way to tears, she wept bitterly for all that she had lost, and all that she must lose so soon.… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“since I’ve been away, I think of you more often than of anyone else in this part of the world. I’d have… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Sometimes," I ventured, "it doesn't occur to boys that their mother was ever young and pretty. . . I couldn't stand it… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Men are all right for friends, but as soon as you marry them they turn into cranky old fathers, even the wild… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“But for all that, our native priests are more devout than your French Jesuits. We have a living Church here, not a… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening. — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Success is less interesting than struggle. There is great pleasure in the effort. — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“I only knew the schoolbooks said he "died in the wilderness, of a broken heart." "More than him has done that," said Antonia sadly,… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“Have the last word ma'm," he said cheerfully. "It's a lady's privilege.” — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
"More than him has done that," said Antonia sadly, and the girls murmured assent. — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Nothing mattered ... but writing books, and living the kind of life that made it possible to write them. — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“Money and office and success are the consolations of impotence. Fortune turns kind to such solid people and lets them suck their bone in… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
But she still had that something which fires the imagination, could still stop one's breath for a moment by a look or gesture that… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“You remember how homesick I used to get, and what long talks we used to have coming from school? We've someway always felt alike… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“He placed this book in my grandmother's hands, looked at her entreatingly, and said, with an earnestness which I shall never forget, "Te-e-ach, te-e-ach… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
The sincerity of feeling that is possible between a writer and a reader is one of the finest things I know. — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
