Looking after children is one of the ways of looking after yourself.

Nothing was to be lost by beginning at the beginning.

What is lawful is not always identical to what is right.

At that moment, the urge to be writing was stronger than any notion she had of what she might write.

Nothing that can be, can come between me and the full prospect of my hopes.

The anticipation and dread he felt at seeing her was also a kind of sensual pleasure, and surrounding it, like an embrace, was a general elation--it might hurt, it was horribly inconvenient, no good might come of it, but he had found out for himself what it was to be in love, and it thrilled him.

How easily this unthinking family love was forgotten.