Never tell all you know—not even to the person you know best.

The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years.

I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.

Lie is more worth living, more full of interest when you are likely to lose it. It shouldn't be, perhaps, but it is. When you're young and strong and healthy, and life stretches ahead of you, living isn't really important at all. It's young people who commit suicide easily, out of despair from love, sometimes from sheer anxiety and worry. But old people know how valuable life is and how interesting. - Jane Marple

Fey...a Scotch word...It means the kind of exalted happiness that comes before disaster. You know--it's too good to be true.

The human face is, after all, nothing more nor less than a mask.

Instinct is a marvelous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.