Madness to us means reversion; to such people as Una and Lena it meant progression. Now their uncle had entered into a land beyond them, the land of fancy. For fifty years he had been as they were, silent, hard-working, unimaginative. Then all of a sudden, like a scholar passing his degree, he had gone up into another form.

God, children know something they can't tell; they like Red Riding Hood and the wolf in bed!

Why is it that whenever I hear music I think I’m a bride?

We are adhering to life now with our last muscle - the heart.

The very condition of Woman is so subject to Hazard, so complex, and so grievous, that to place her at one moment is but to displace her at the next.

I have been loved,' she said, 'by something strange, and it has forgotten me.

Yes, we who are full to the gorge with misery should look well around, doubting everything seen, done, spoken, precisely because we have a word for it, and not its alchemy