Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality. – Emily Dickinson
I never had a mother. I suppose a mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled. – Emily Dickinson
Sisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dainty sum! One bird, one cage, one flight; one song in those far woods, as yet suspected by faith only! – Emily Dickinson
I have a brother and sister; my mother does not care for thought, and father, too busy with his briefs to notice what we do. He buys me many books, but begs me not to read them, because he fears they joggle the mind. – Emily Dickinson
There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry. – Emily Dickinson
They might not need me; but they might. I’ll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity. – Emily Dickinson