I think you will learn to be natural with me, as I find it impossible to be conventional with you

I believe that creature is a changeling: she is a perfect cabinet of oddities.

I wished critics would judge me as an author, not as a woman.

There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.

To see and know the worst is to take from Fear her main advantage.

Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour ... If at my convenience I might break them, what would be their worth?

As to the thoughts, they are elfish. Those eyes in the Evening Star you must have seen in a dream.