God Almighty, your ruined, and you didn't even eat the gingerbread.

Let go of the anger, hang on to the good lessons.

God Almighty, your ruined, and you didn't even eat the gingerbread.

You are absolutely beautiful," Anne said. "But if you see yourself, you'll want to pin your hair back like a shepherdess in a bad play." (Eleanor) "Are you saying that I normally look as if I'm tending sheep? With straw in my hair? As if I might yodel?

If you throw me out of this house, I shall sleep on the path outside. If you return to the Continent without me, I shall follow you. I will build a willow hut at your gate; I will sleep under your window; I will be waiting for you at your own front door.

A stale mind is the devil's breadbox.

Shame can kill the imagination. It's hard to keep writing in the face of cultural derision.