The great thing to remember is we can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough.

What is it with me? Am I absolutely nobody, but merely inordinately vain? I do not know…. But I am most fearfully unhappy. That is all. I am so unhappy that I wish I was dead—yet I should be mad to die when I have not yet lived at all.

The ostrich burying its head in the sand does at any rate wish to convey the impression that its head is the most important part of it.

How hard it is to escape from places. However carefully one goes they hold you — you leave little bits of yourself fluttering on the fences — like rags and shreds of your very life.

Isn't life,' she stammered, 'isn't life--' But what life was she couldn't explain. No matter. He quite understood. 'Isn't it, darling?' said Laurie.

Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.

How idiotic civilization is! Why be given a body if you have to keep it shut up in a case like a rare, rare fiddle?