You know I'm old in some ways-in others-well, I'm just a little girl. I like sunshine and pretty things and cheerfulness-and I dread responsibility.

Young people do not perceive at once that the giver of wounds is the enemy and the quoted tattle merely the arrow.

Of the things they possessed in common, greatest of all was their almost uncanny pull at each others hearts.

No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.

She confused him and hindered the flow of his ideas. Self-expression had never seemed at once so desirable and so impossible.

I am too much a moralist at heart, and really want to preach at people in some acceptable form, rather than entertain them.

Strange children should smile at each other and say, "Let's play.