We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self denial, anxiety and discouragement.

Do you know, Gilbert, there are times when I strongly suspect that I love you!

It is when my umbrella turns inside out that I am convinced of the total depravity of inanimate things.

…determined to enjoy her luxury of grief uncomforted.

I like to hear a storm at night. It is so cosy to snuggle down among the blankets and feel that it can't get at you.

It makes you feel very virtuous when you forgive people, doesn't it?

She asked me what made me do such a thing. That is an awkward question because I often can't tell what makes me do things. Sometimes I do them just to find out what I feel like doing them. And sometimes I do them because I want to have some exciting things to tell my grandchildren.