Sarah Orne Jewett

"The process of falling in love at first sight is as final as it is swift in such a case, but the growth of true friendship may be a lifelong affair."

"Step in some afternoon," he said, as affectionately as if I were a fellow-shipmaster wrecked on the lee shore of age like himself."

"It does seem so pleasant to talk with an old acquaintance who knows what you know. I see so many new folks nowadays who seem to have neither past nor future. Conversation has got to have some root in …"

"A harbor, even if it is a little harbor, is a good thing, since adventurers come into it as well as go out, and the life in it grows strong, because it takes something from the world, and has somethin…"

"In the life of each of us, I said to myself, there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness."

"So we die before our own eyes; so we see some chapters of our lives come to their natural end."

"'Tain't worthwhile to wear a day all out before it comes."

"Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of."