"Don't you feel any response at all in your heart... the slightest return for my longing?"

"[to Paul] If anything happens to me, the boat and a sum of money belong to you. Everything else that I own will go to…"

"[to John] You remind me of the cast-iron dog that used to stand on our lawn. I talked to it by the hour, but it just …"

"Gimme a kiss, Millie. Gimme a kiss, or I'll put you in the swamp!"

"Please be nice to me, Millie. Something terrible will happen if you're not."

"From across the still water came the languorous perfume of oleanders and orange blossoms."

"Life is so dreadfully in the dark. There are maps to guide us to strange places, but none for souls."

"Mystery, the insidious scents of earth, the veiled lure of sex. Life's traps were set with just such treacheries...!"

"Wild Oranges, at first surprisingly bitter, but after a moment pungent and zestful with a never-to-be-forgotten flavor."

"Thrust unwillingly into the horror of the Civil War, Litchfield Stope had been stricken with the curse of fear, and t…"