That's all life is - something childish and very natural. Isn't it?

Looking back, I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing at all.

Courage is like a disobedient dog, once it starts running away it flies all the faster for your attempts to recall it.

Bless you, my darling, and remember you are always in the heart - oh tucked so close there is no chance of escape - of your sister.

I'm a writer first and a woman after.

I have such a horror of telegrams that ask me how I am!! I always want to reply dead.

But one day we shall be rich, and the next poor. One day we shall dine in a palace and the next we'll sit in a forest and toast mushrooms on a hatpin.