Mother didn't understand that children aren't frightened by stories; that their lives are full of far more frightening things than those contained in fairy tales.

While I wasn't certain how I felt about spiritualists, I was certain enough about the type of people who were drawn to them. Only people unhappy in the present seek to know the future.

It is a cruel, ironical art, photography. The dragging of captured moments into the future; moments that should have been allowed to be evaporate into the past; should exist only in memories, glimpsed through the fog of events that came after. Photographs force us to see people before their future weighed them down.

Only people unhappy in the present seek to know the future.

She was the sort of person for whom fear was the natural response to that beyond explanation.

The happiest folk are those that are busy, for their minds are starved of time to seek out woe.

Thinking of nothing. Trying to think of nothing. Thinking of everything.