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
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.
And who says you always have to understand things? You can like them without understanding them -- like 'em better sometimes.
People do look different with their eyes closed, their features seem so much more sculptured.
It is rather exciting to write by moonlight.
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...
I only want to write. And there's no college for that except life.
The tea was a comfort - and by that time I more than needed comfort.
Perhaps watching someone you love suffer can teach you even more than suffering yourself can.
Everything in the least connected with him has value for me; if someone even mentions his name it is like a little present to me-and I long to mention it myself
Your pain and anger will pass, but the guilt would remain with you for always.
Miserable people cannot afford to dislike each other
It is odd how different a house feels when one is alone in it.
I wonder if there isn't a catch about having plenty of money? Does it eventually take the pleasure out of things?
I have found that sitting in a place where you have never sat before can be inspiring.
That little glow of comfort lasted me right through the evening but was gone when I woke up next morning. Wakings are the worst times--almost before my eyes are open a great weight seems to roll on to...
Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.
She is a famous artists' model who claims to have been christened Topaz - even if this is true there is no law to make a woman stick to a name like that.
My imagination longs to dash ahead and plan developments; but I have noticed that when things happen in one's imaginings, they never happen in one's life, so I am curbing myself.
Like many other much-loved humans, they believed that they owned their dogs, instead of realizing that their dogs owned them.