Saliva mucusque
I am near fourteen and have never yet seen a hanging. My life is barren.
I feel safer when you're here. You're so big and sturdy, like a beautiful tree I can lean on and not knock over.
It's important to know what you think, my dear, or else you will be so hemmed in by other people's ideas and opinions, you won't have room for your own.
I know what I want. A full belly, a contented heart, and a place in this world.
. . she dreamed of nothing, for she hoped for nothing and expected nothing. It was as cold and dark inside her as out in the frosty night.
. . . I cannot escape my life but can only use my determination and courage to make it the best I can.
Corpus bones, I thought. To be wedded to this perfumed prig with his mouth in a knot and a frown always on his face!
19TH DAY OF OCTOBER, Feast of Saint Frideswide, virgin, though why that should make someone a saint I do not know
My pains are but trifling things compared to my joy.
Love brightens and purifies the heart.
I am commanded to write an account of my days: I am bit by fleas and plagued by family. That is all there is to say.
Fathers should make you feel safe.
Non che non creda in Dio. Ci credo. Solo non sono sicura di credere nel Paradiso, almeno non quanto credo nella biblioteca pubblica.
Minds, like diapers, need occasional changing.
Just because you don't know everything don't mean you know nothing.
My mother makes the best cider in Lincolnshire. She swears it is because she always includes a number of rotten apples in the mix. I was wondering if this could be true of people - if the world needs...
Corpus Bones! I utterly loathe my life.
She was not as stupid as some I have had, and better company, but still perhaps her going was for the best. She was not what I needed.Because I failed, whispered Alyce in the shadows.Because she gave...
More lady-lessons. It is impossible to do all and be all a lady must be and not tie oneself in a knot. A lady must walk erect with dignity, looking straight before her with eyelids low, gazing at the...