Ah, but you're the insidious type--Jane Eyre with of touch of Becky Sharp. A thoroughly dangerous girl.
Topaz was wonderfully patient - but sometimes I wonder if it is not only patience, but also a faint resemblance to cows.
Oh, it was an artful place--it must make people who have money want to spend it madly!
A thousand pounds for clothes--when on thinks how long poor people could live on it! When one thinks how long we could live on it, for that matter!
So many of the loveliest things in England are melancholy.
I am not so sure I should like the facts of life, but I have got over the bitter disappointment I felt when I first heard about them,...
He stood staring into the wood for a minute, then said: What is it about the English countryside — why is the beauty so much more than visual? Why does it touch one so?He sounded faintly sad. Perhaps...
But I can't see how anyone could believe that you killed the bear with a pitchfork,' I said.'I didn't. I only wounded it - badly, I think, but not enough to put it out of action. It came blundering to...
No, that was my privilege.
Father says hot water can be as stimulating as an alcoholic drink and though I never come by one...I can well believe it.
Even a broken heart doesn't warrant a waste of good paper.
Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing.
Only half a page left now. Shall I fill it with 'I love you, I love you'-- like father's page of cats on the mat? No. Even a broken heart doesn't warrant a waste of good paper.
It is rather exciting to write by moonlight.
Cruel blows of fate call for extreme kindness in the family circle.
My imagination longs to dash ahead and plan developments; but I have noticed that when things happen in one's imagination, they never happen in one's life.
I suddenly knew that religion, God - something beyond everyday life - was there to be found, provided one is really willing. And I saw that though what I felt in the church was only imagination, it wa...
The tea was a comfort - and by that time I more than needed comfort.
It isn't a bit of use my pretending I'm not crying, because I am... Pause to mop up. Better now.Perhaps it would really be rather dull to be married and settled for life. Liar! It would be heaven.
I think it [religion] is an art, the greatest one; an extension of the communion all the other arts attempt.