I have no talent for making new friends, but oh such genius for fidelity to old ones.

Time will mellow it, make it a moment for laughter. But now it was not funny, now I did not laugh. It was not the future, it was the present. It was too vivid and too real.

no person will ever get into my blood as a place can ... People and things pass away, but not places.

Sometimes it’s a sort of indulgence to think the worst of ourselves. We say, ‘Now I have reached the bottom of the pit, now I can fall no further,’ and it is almost a pleasure to wallow in the darkness. The trouble is, it’s not true. There is no end to the evil in ourselves, just as there is no end to the good. It’s a matter of choice. We struggle to climb, or we struggle to fall. The thing is to discover which way we’re going.

Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

Because I want to; because I must; because now and forever more this is where I belong to be.

I wish I was a woman of about thirty-six dressed in black satin with a string of pearls.