You had to endure something yourself before it touched you.
Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.
And I don't like books which are full of name dropping.
I felt rather exhausted, and wondered, rather shocked at my callous thought, why old people were sometimes such a strain. Worse than young children or puppies because one had to be polite.
I wondered why it was that places are so much lovelier when one is alone.
I held out my arms to him and he came to me like a child.