“Laura felt a warmth inside her. It was very small, but it was strong. It was steady, like a tiny light in the dark, and it burned very low but no winds could make it flicker because it would not give up.”
More from Laura Ingalls Wilder
“Politicians, they take pleasure a-prying into a man's affairs and I aimed to please 'em.”
“So to the end when life’s dim shadows fall, Love will be found the sweetest song of all.”
“The candle-light was dim, as though the darkness were trying to put it out.”
“There was no time to lose, no time to waste in rest or play. The life of the earth comes…”