"She loved all the creatures of the farm. Each one, even a hen, was like a person to her, even more real than many of the real people she knew. Some were playful or bold, and some were shy. Some were g..."
- Roger Lea MacBride
"And reading is a wonderful thing for the mind. I have not been many places in my life. But in books, I have traveled all over the world."
"Sometimes when Rose was reading, she would catch a whiff of the musty smell of her book. She put her nose down in the fold and inhaled deeply so that wonderful smell, the smell of adventure in faraway..."