Still, looking through the old volumes was soothing, because thinking of the past made the present seem a little less real.

The key to all knowledge comes in words of just one syllable, apparently.... There's only the last page left to write on. I'll fill it with words of just one syllable. I love. I have loved. I will love.

Everything in the least connected with him has value for me; if someone even mentions his name it is like a little present to me-and I long to mention it myself

extreme happiness invites religion almost as much as extreme misery.

When I read a book, I put in all the imagination I can, so that it is almost like writing the book as well as reading it - or rather, it is like living it. It makes reading so much more exciting, but I don't suppose many people try to do it.

Americans do seem to say things which make the English notice England.

And no bathroom on earth will make up for marrying a bearded man you hate.