It Takes A Lot Of Doing To

A Child Forgets A Time Of Hunger But Never Forgets The Aching Want Of Other Things.

You Won't Die, Francie. You Were Born To Lick This Rotten Life.

Oh, I Wish I Was Young Again When Everything Seemed So Wonderful!

It Was So Simple That A Flash Of Astonishment That Felt Like Pain Shot Through Her Head. Education! That Was It! It Was Education That Made The Difference! Education Would Pull Them Ut Of The Grame And Dirt.

...the Reading, The Observing, The Living From Day To Day. It Was Something That Had Been Born Into Her And Her Only - The Something Different From Anyone Else In The Two Families. It Was What God Or Whatever Is His Equivalent Puts Into Each Soul That Is Given Life - The One Different Thing Such As That Which Makes No Two Fingerprints On The Face Of The Earth Alike.