Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.

People's clothes ought to be buried with them.

If you love people, you take them on trust.

What a tiny list of friends I have! All my fault. I less and less want to see people.

The family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.

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.

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