Quotes from Helen Van Slyke

People who let the weak or greedy drink their blood sometimes have a need to play God.

The rush of power to the head is not as becoming as a new hat

Mail from home was so important when you were traveling. It kept you in touch with the familiar, even the part you were running from.

Eighty's a landmark and people treat you differently than they do when you're seventy-nine. At seventy-nine, if you drop something it just lies there. At eighty, people pick it up for you.

When you get to be my age, all your friends have either died or moved to Florida.

If arrogance is the heady wine of youth then humility must be its eternal hangover.

Emotion seemed more valid than experience, for I had so much of the former and so little of the latter.

Fear is for the old. Lack of it is one of the joys of youth.