Belfastas uncivilised as ever--savage black mothers in houses of dark red brick, friendly manufacturers too drunk to entertain you when you arrive. It amuses me till I get tired.

I can only do what's easy. I can only entice and be enticed. I can't, and won't, attempt difficult relations. If I marry it will either be a man who's strong enough to boss me or whom I'm strong enough to boss. So I shan't ever marry, for there aren't such men. And Heaven help any one whom I do marry, for I shall certainly run away from him before you can say 'Jack Robinson.

Nature pulls one way and human nature another.

Adventures do occur, but not punctually.

Do you remember Italy?

God is not Love in the East. He is Power, although Mercy may temper it.

When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love; it is one of the moments for which the world was made.