I can never give a 'yes' or a 'no.' I don't believe everything in life can be settled by a monosyllable.

And that's where the whole trouble is. We're too much alike to understand each other because we don't even understand our own selves.

It doesn't take long to write things of which you know nothing. When you write of actual things, it takes longer, because you have to live them first.

If there was only one tree like that in the world, you would think it was beautiful. But because there are so many, you just can't see how beautiful it really is.

Books became her friends, and there was one for every mood.

I hate all those flirty-birty games that women make up. Life's too short. If you ever find a man you love, don't waste time hanging your head and simpering. Go right up to him and say, 'I love you. How about getting married?

But the penciled sheets did not seem like nor smell like the library book so she had given it up, consoling herself with the vow that when she grew up, she would work hard, save money and buy every single book that she liked.