About Sarah Orne Jewett: Sarah Orne Jewett is recognized as an important practitioner of American literary regionalism.
I couldn't help thinkin' if she was as far out o' town as she was out o' tune, she wouldn't get back in a day.
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; we are each the uncompanioned hermit and recluse of an hour or a day; we understand our fellows of the cell to whateve...
It was mortifying to find how strong the habit of idle speech may become in one’s self. One need not always be saying something in this noisy world.
When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am.
Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.
Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.
The road was new to me, as roads always are, going back.
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.
I now remembered that Mrs. Todd had told me one day that Captain Littlepage had overset his mind with too much reading.
Find your quiet center of life and write from that to the world.
It is the people who can do nothing who find nothing to do, and the secret to happiness in this world is not only to be useful, but to be forever elevating one's uses.
God would not give us the same talent if what were right for men were wrong for women.
The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper - whether little or great, it belongs to Literature.
What has made this nation great? Not its heroes but its households.
