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!
Source:Letter to Dr. and Mrs. J. G. Holland (September 1859); in The Letters of Emily Dickinson (ed. Belknap Press, 1958), Volume II, Letter 207, Page 353
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