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

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

So many of the loveliest things in England are melancholy.

Rose doesn’t like the flat country, but I always did – flat country seems to give the sky such a chance.

... for I know I shall be interrupted-- I shall want to be, really, because life is too exciting to sit still for long.

Perhaps it would really be rather dull to be married and settled for life. Liar! It would be heaven.

The tea was a comfort - and by that time I more than needed comfort.