People have never lost what they think they have.

The plot is not very important to me, though a novel must have one, of course. It's just a line to hang the washing on.

There isn't much to say. I haven't been at all deedy.

Many people misjudge the permanent effect of sorrow, and their capacity to live in the past.

Appearances are not held to be a clue to the truth,' said his cousin. 'But we seem to have no other.

I am ill at ease with people whose lives are an open book.

It will be a beautiful family talk, mean and worried and full of sorrow and spite and excitement.