There are two types of panicking: standing still and not saying a word, and leaping all over the place babbling anything that comes into your head.

You might be afraid of the dark, but the dark is not afraid of you. That’s why the dark is always close by.

The worst surroundings in the world can be tolerated if the people in them are interesting and kind.

For Beatrice, summer without you is as cold as winter. Winter without you, is even colder.

To Beatrice- My love flew like a butterfly Until death swooped down like a bat As the poet Emma Montana McElroy said: 'That's the end of that.

I had this idea about terrible things happening to orphans, and I knew it was such a horrible idea that the idea of writing it down and then submitting it professionally was obviously absurd.

You may be right,' she said, a phrase which here meant 'I’m wrong, but I don’t have the courage to say so.