I not only want to be loved, I want to be told that I'm loved.

Signs are small measurable things, but interpretations are illimitable, and in girls of sweet, ardent nature, every sign is apt to conjure up wonder, hope, belief, vast as a sky, and colored by a thimbleful of matter in the shape of knowledge....wrong reasoning sometimes lands poor mortals in right conclusions: starting a long way off the true point, and proceeding by loops and zigzags, we now and then arrive just where we ought to be. Just because Miss Brooke was hasty in her trust, it is not therefore clear that Mr. Casaubon was unworthy of it.

Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it.

Human experience is usually paradoxical.

... the true seeing is within; and painting stares at you with an insistent imperfection.

To an old memory like mine the present days are but as a little water poured on the deep.

Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.