She'd come running up the driveway and into the kitchen, bringing the spring morning behind her like a trail of hope.

You mess with my sister, you're messing with me!

Do the best you can with yourself and hope for the best.

You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.

I remembered back to leo's burial and holding your hand. I was eleven and you were six, your hand soft and small in mine. As the vicar said 'in sure and certain hope of the resurrection of eternal life' you turned to me, 'I don't want sure and certain hope I want sure and certain Bee.

Joe has a solid, tough, gritty, working-class tribe behind him. It may look like a motley crew to the college-degree ladies in the leafy suburbs, but you would not want to go to war against the Joe Kennedy coalition.