In spite of my efforts I could not free myself. He caught me to me and I felt his teeth against mine. I kept mine firmly clenched and I hated him. I hated him so fiercely that I found a certain pleasu...
Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience.
I wanted to learn more of love- that is built not on the shifting sands of violent passion but on the steady rock of deep and abiding affection.
Dust was dangerous, I insisted. Insects bred in it.
I like a work of art for what it means to me.
People don’t always see what their eyes tell them is there. They see what they have made up their minds to see, and I’m afraid they might make up their minds that something done by a woman could not p...
Never underestimate yourself, Miss Jessie. People are going to think you’re not up to much if you think that way yourself.
When one grows older one learns that happiness—complete and unadulterated happiness—comes only in moments, and must be recognized and savored to the full, for even in the happiest life, the complete j...
He had all the most charming and irresistible gestures that a girl deeply in love looks for and who refuses to tell herself that they may have been acquired through long practice.
We are born, we suffer, we love, we die, but the waves continue to beat upon the rocks; the seed time and the harvest come and go, but the earth remains.
I asked her to teach me, too, but she said it was something you taught yourself by keeping your eyes and ears open, and learning about people — for human nature was the same all the world over; there...
So, Kerensa, you should never regret any experience, good or evil; for there's some good in what's bad just as there be bad in good...
You persuade yourself that all is well even though you are feeling bored or unfulfilled and you are not sure if your husband or wife is your Soul mate. You have tried your best and you have created a...
I was with my father at the end. He held my hand and I could see that he was at peace. Colin
But somehow at the back of my mind was the feeling that if I did the sensible thing I would regret it, for I would be choosing a way of life that would be so predictable, it would rob me of all the ex...