No, that was my privilege.
So many of the loveliest things in England are melancholy.
People's clothes ought to be buried with them.
I write this sitting in the kitchen sink.
I like seeing people when they can't see me.
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.
At least we're companions in misfortune
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!
Oh, it was an artful place--it must make people who have money want to spend it madly!
It is rather exciting to write by moonlight.
Even a broken heart doesn't warrant a waste of good paper.
Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing.
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,...
Miserable people cannot afford to dislike each other
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...
I only want to write. And there's no college for that except life.
Cruel blows of fate call for extreme kindness in the family circle.
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.