She wanted, passionately and persistently, two things which she believed should subsist together in any well-ordered life: amusement and respectability.

As the pain that can be told is but half a pain, so the pity that questions has little healing in its touch.

The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!

It was too late for happiness - but not too late to be helped by the thought of what I had missed. That is all I haved lived on - don't take it from me now

Don't they always go from bad to worse? There's no turning back--your old self rejects you, and shuts you out. ~Lilly Bart

Until the raw ingredients of a pudding make a pudding, I shall never believe that the raw material of sensation and thought can make a work of art without the cook's intervening.

Everything may be labelled- but everybody is not.