I shouldn't think even millionaires could eat anything nicer than new bread and real butter and honey for tea.
When I imagine changing places with her I get the feeling I do on finishing a novel with a brick-wall happy ending---I mean the kind of ending when you never think any more about the characters.
Why is summer mist romantic and autumn mist just sad?
There was a wonderful atmosphere of gentle age, a smell of flowers and beeswax, sweet yet faintly sour and musty; a smell that makes you feel very tender towards the past.
The family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.
...[P]erhaps it is the loving that counts, not the being loved in return---that perhaps true loving can never know anything but happiness.
All I really want to write about is what happened just before he left. But if I let myself start with that I might forget some of the things which came first. And every word he said is of deepest valu...
Stew's so comforting on a rainy day.
Rose doesn’t like the flat country, but I always did – flat country seems to give the sky such a chance.
Did you think of anything when Miss Marcy said Scoatney Hall was being re-opened? I thought of the beginning of Pride and Prejudice – where Mrs. Bennet says 'Netherfield Park is let a last.' And then...
The Devil's out of fashion.
There is something revolting about the way girls' minds so often jump to marriage long before they jump to love.
I have really sinned. I am going to pause now, and sit here on the mound repenting in deepest shame...
But some characters in books are really real--Jane Austen's are; and I know those five Bennets at the opening of Pride and Prejudice, simply waiting to raven the young men at Netherfield Park, are not...
And no bathroom on earth will make up for marrying a bearded man you hate.
Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.
Am I really admitting that my sister is determined to marry a man she has only seen once and doesn't much like the look of? It is half real and half pretense - and I have an idea that it is a game mos...
I was so happy that I wanted to be kind to everyone in the world.
When I read a book, I put in all the imagination I can, so that it is almost like writing the book as well as reading it - or rather, it is like living it. It makes reading so much more exciting, but...
Still, looking through the old volumes was soothing, because thinking of the past made the present seem a little less real.