“She thought to herself, "This is now." She was glad that the cozy house, and Pa and Ma and the firelight and the music, were now. They could not be forgotten, she thought, because now is now. It can never be a long time ago.”
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…”