There is nothing more aggravating than a man who won't talk back - unless it is a woman who won't.

Houses are like people - some you like and some you don't like - and once in a while there is one you love.

Red hair is my life long sorrow.

Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.

I've just been imagining that it was really me you wanted after all and that I was to stay here for ever and ever. It was a great comfort while it lasted. But the worst of imagining things is that the time comes when you have to stop and that hurts.

Look at that sea, girls--all silver and shadow and vision of things not seen. We couldn't enjoy its loveliness any more if we had millions of dollars and ropes of diamonds.

Mrs. Spencer said it was wicked of me to talk like that, but I didn’t mean to be wicked. It’s so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn’t it?