I am simply a 'book drunkard.' Books have the same irresistible temptation for me that liquor has for its devotee. I cannot withstand them.

I don't really care what people think about me if they don't let me see it.

War was a hellish, horrible hideous thing - too horrible and hideous to happen in the twentieth century between civilised nations.

she was richer in those dreams than in realities; for things seen pass away, but the things that are unseen are eternal.

I feel as if something has been torn suddenly out of my life and left a terrible hole. I feel as if I couldn't be I — as if I must have changed into somebody else and couldn't get used to it. It gives me a horrible lonely, dazed, helpless feeling. It's good to see you again — it seems as if you were a sort of anchor for my drifting soul.

You see," she concluded miserably, "when I can call like that to him across space--I belong to him. He doesn't love me--he never will--but I belong to him.

Snow in April is abominable," said Anne. "Like a slap in the face when you expect a kiss.