I've had a splendid time," she concluded happily, "and I feel that it marks an epoch in my life. But the best of it all was the coming home.

I'd rather look ridiculous when everybody else does than plain and sensible all by myself.

Red hair is my life long sorrow.

I know I chatter on far too much... but if you only knew how many things I want to say and don't. Give me SOME credit.

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

Children can be the most cruel creatures alive. They have the herd instinct of prejudice against any outsider, and they are merciless in its indulgence.

As she walked along she dramatized the night. There was about it a wild, lawless charm that appealed to a certain wild, lawless strain hidden deep in Emily’s nature—the strain of the gypsy and the poet, the genius and the fool.