“Gossip is just like a bee—it comes and it goes and it stops at every pretty flower, but it does no harm unless you stop it, try to catch it, and hold onto it. Then it stings you.” — Lake Union Publishing Copy Share Image
“Children, from what I had seen, were too often the fruit of men’s evil to women. And too often, instead of hating the men… — Lake Union Publishing Copy Share Image
“It is as if she is punishing everyone who has ever done her wrong through her punishment of me.” — Lake Union Publishing Copy Share Image
“But a son—a son must make something of his mother if he is to make something of himself.” — Lake Union Publishing Copy Share Image
“Gossip is just like a bee—it comes and it goes and it stops at every pretty flower, but it does no harm unless you… — Lake Union Publishing Copy Share Image
“Seems to me that the important thing about a lie is not the content, but the way it is told, the spirit of it.… — Lake Union Publishing Copy Share Image
“I have too open a nature, am too trusting, too willing to see the good in others. I would go so far as to… — Lake Union Publishing Copy Share Image
“saw flirtation where there was perhaps only surprise. I saw desire where there was perhaps only deference. I saw seduction where there was only… — Lake Union Publishing Copy Share Image
