I wanted so terribly to be good to him.

Perhaps watching someone you love suffer can teach you even more than suffering yourself can.

I like seeing people when they can't see me.

Perhaps if I make myself write I shall find out what is wrong with me.

People's clothes ought to be buried with them.

Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.

They call them the haunted shores, these stretches of Devonshire and Cornwall and Ireland which rear up against the westward ocean. Mists gather here, and sea fog, and eerie stories. That's not because there are more ghosts here than in other places, mind you. It's just that people who live hereabouts are strangely aware of them.