[she] had a great reputation for unselfishness because she was always giving up a lot of things she didn't want.

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

You have the itch for writing born in you. It's quite incurable. What are you going to do with it?

Gossip, as usual, was one-third right and two-thirds wrong.

But she had long ago learned that when she wandered into the realm of fancy she must go alone. The way to it was by an enchanted path where not even her dearest might follow her.

It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.

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.