And who says you always have to understand things? You can like them without understanding them -- like 'em better sometimes.

I have noticed that rooms which are extra clean feel extra cold

He laughed a little, in an odd, nervous kind of way. "Because if I don't get going soon, the whole impetus may die--and if that happens, well, I really shall consider a long, restful plunge into insanity. Sometimes the abyss yawns very attractively.

Am I really admitting that my sister is determined to marry a man she has only seen once and doesn't much like the look of? It is half real and half pretense - and I have an idea that it is a game most girls play when they meet an eligible young men. They just...wonder.

There was a wonderful atmosphere of gentle age, a smell of flowers and beeswax, sweet yet faintly sour and musty; a smell that makes you feel very tender towards the past.

Only the margin left to write on now. I love you, I love you, I love you.

Like many other much-loved humans, they believed that they owned their dogs, instead of realizing that their dogs owned them.