"If we grab Johnson's place now, we'll go back a hundred years and have some privacy-for awhile, anyway" (Chapter 1, pg. 11.)

"You could only sweep at it because rough boards supply fresh dirt from their cracks as soon as you have removed a dustpanful" (Chapter 1, pg. 28.)

"When I could think clearly, it was all too plain to me that if something wasn't done to help him get well I was going to lose the only husband I ever wanted" (Chapter 2, pg. 44.)

"The cabin was warm from the sun when we got home and the warmth stayed on after we finished our dinner" (Chapter 3, pg. 97.)

"'This moccasin telegraph business startles me' I said 'I am used to comfortable anonymity'" (Chapter 4, pg. 104-105.)

"I began to tremble as I saw my smallness and inadequacy against the vastness of the natural world" (Chapter 4, pg. 156.)

"I was linked to them, not only by...