Folks who make such a fuss about their rights turn them into wrongs sometimes. -- (from Behind the White Brick)

Mistress Mary Quite Contrary

Never did she find anything so difficult as to keep herself from losing her temper when she was suddenly disturbed while absorbed in a book.

One of the strange things about living in the world is that it is only now and then one is quite sure one is going to live forever and ever and ever.

If I go on talking and talking...and telling you things about pretending, I shall bear it better. You don't forget, but you bear it better.

That's what I look at some people for. I like to know about them. I think them over afterward.

we do not believe until we want a thing and feel that we shall die if 'tis not granted to us, and then we kneel and kneel and believe, because we must have someone to ask help from.