O the anguish of the thought that we can never atone to our dead for the stinted affection we gave them.

Don't you meddle with me, and I won't meddle with you.

Doesn't this quote just call up feelings of comfort and home? Comparing friendship to the nest a bird lives in and builds with loving determination reminds me that having a solid relationship takes work and dedication. And yet, when you succeed in crafting a friendship, you can rest in the comfort it provides.

When we are young we think our troubles a mighty business - that the world is spread out expressly as a stage for the particular drama of our lives and that we have a right to rant and foam at the mouth if we are crossed. I have done enough of that in my time.

He was of an impressible nature, and lived a great deal in other people's opinions and feelings concerning himself.

I shall never love anybody. I can't love people. I hate them.' 'The time will come, dear, the time will come.

I easily sink into mere absorption of what other minds have done, and should like a whole life for that alone.