I shall do one thing in this life - one thing certain - that is, love you, and long for you, and keep wanting you till I die.
I don't--know about ghosts, but I do know that our souls can be made to go outside our bodies when we are alive... A very easy way to feel 'em go is to lie on the grass at night, and look straight up...
How people will talk about one’s doings! Fancy exclaimed.Well, if you make songs about yourself, my dear, you can’t blame other people for singing ’em.
George's son had done his work so thoroughly that he was considered too good a workman to live, and was, in fact, taken and tragically shot at twelve o'clock that same day—another instance of the unto...
Because what's the use of learning that I am one of a long row only - finding out that there is set down in some old book somebody just like me, and to know that I shall only act her part; making me s...
At times her whimsical fancy would intensify natural processes around her till they seemed a part of her own story. Rather they became a part of it; for the world is only a psychological phenomenon, a...
Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length.
Such miserable creatures of circumstance are we all!
But a new thing, a great hitch, had happened yesterday in the gliding and noiseless current of his life, and he felt as a snake must feel who has sloughed off its winter skin, and cannot understand th...
A novel is an impression, not an argument.
She moved about in a mental cloud of many-coloured idealities, which eclipsed all sinister contingencies by its brightness.
Ladies know what to guard against, because they read novels that tell them of these tricks…