Previously in this series.
“I’m so sorry for that house. I wish it had been finished. It wants to be – even yet it wants to be.”
“We are both going to pray that we may live together all our lives and die the same day.”
“There has been a dark shadow over this day. I dropped my cent in church.”
“There is a beautiful fringe of isikles along the cookhouse roof. But there will be much more beautiful things in heaven.”
“I hope I shall never have a million dollars. I am sure it would crush me utterly.”
Along the snow the sunbeams glide
Earth is a peerless, gleaming bride,
Dripping with diamonds, clad in traling white,
No bride was ever half so fair and bright
“I feel as if I was made out of star-dust.”
(0f the wind)
“You’re such company, Wind Woman.”
“Cousin Jimmy, do you think I’m likely to die of consumption?”
“Your hands are fat and pudgy.”
“How am I queer?”
BONUS: IF ELLEN GREENE WERE YOUR “FRIEND” IRL
“Do you know that your pa has only a week or two more to live?”
“He makes a better looking corpse than I thought he would, what with being so wasted and all.”
Nicole is an Editor of The Toast.