And the good fairy said, I won't leave you money or pretty dresses but I will leave you the spirit to seek your fortune from your own efforts.

In the books I read the sinners are always more interesting than the saints, and in real life good people are dismally dull. I've no desire to be wicked, but I do want to be happy. A short life and a gay one for me and I'm willing to pay for my pleasure if it is necessary.

My only answer is, if my grave stood open on one side and you upon the other I'd go into my grave before I would take one step to meet you.

To be strong, and beautiful, and go round making music all the time. Yes, she could do that, and with a very earnest prayer Polly asked for the strength of an upright soul, the beauty of a tender heart, the power to make her life a sweet and stirring song, helpful while it lasted, remembered when it died.

Men are always ready to die for us, but not to make our lives worth having. Cheap sentiment and bad logic.

I will make a battering-ram of my head and make my way through this rough and tumble world.

All the worse for the undeniable talent which hides the evil so subtly and makes the danger so delightful.