I don't say Valancy deliberately murdered these lovers as she outgrew them. One simply faded away as another came. Things are very convenient in this respect in Blue Castles.
[...] Cousin Jimmy gave me a whole dollar on the sly last week. I wish he had not given me so much. It worrys me. It is an awful responsibility. It will be so diffikult to spend it wisely also without...
Cousin Jimmy says that a man in Priest Pond says the end of the world is coming soon. I hope it won't come till I've seen everything in it.
Don't be fretting...about me marrying. Marrying's a trouble and not marrying's a trouble and I sticks to the trouble I knows.
I am quite likely to re-act to the opposite extreme - to feel rapturously that the world is beautiful and mere existence something to thank God for. I suppose our 'blues' are the price we have to pay...
Well, it all comes to this, there's no use trying to live in other people's opinions. The only thing to do is to live in our own.
Aunt Elizabeth said, 'Do you expect to attend many balls, if I may ask?' and I said, 'Yes, when I am rich and famous.' and Aunt Elizabeth said, 'Yes, when the moon is made of green cheese.
I never hear about dear Mike. I wrote Ellen Greene and asked about him and she replyed and never mentioned Mike but told me all about her roomatism. As if I cared about her roomatism.
I have it lots of time--whenever I see anything royally beautiful. But they shouldn't call that lovely place the Avenue. There is no meaning in a name like that. They should call it--let me see--the W...
You've all been so sure that life is good that I've never been able to disbelieve it. Never will be able to.
But maybe everything'll go all right. In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take what ever God sends.
March came in that winter like the meekest and mildest of lambs, bringing days that were crisp and golden and tingling, each followed by a frosty pink twilight which gradually lost itself in an elflan...
What's the matter with you, Penny? You're not as good looking as you generally believe you are.
Oh, she thought, how horrible it is that people have to grow up-and marry-and change!
She told herself that she longed greatly to go back to those dear merry days when life was seen through a rosy mist of hope and illusion, and possessed an indefinable something that had passed away fo...
An old house that had lived its life long ago and so was very quiet and wise and a little mysterious. Also a little austere, but very kind.
…determined to enjoy her luxury of grief uncomforted.
You are the only person who loves me in the world, said Elizabeth. When you talk to me I smell violets.
I'm just tired of everything…even of the echoes. There is nothing in my life but echoes…echoes of lost hopes and dreams and joys. They're beautiful and mocking.
That is one good thing about this world...there are always sure to be more springs.
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