She had...the glimmerings of a sense of humour - which is simply another name for a sense of the fitness of things.

We've had a beautiful friendship, Diana. We've never marred it by one quarrel or coolness or unkind word; and I hope it will always be so. But things can't be quite the same after this. You'll have other interests. I'll just be on the outside.

Fear is the original sin. Almost all of the evil in the world has its origin in the fact that some one is afraid of something.It is a cold slimy serpent coiling about you. It is horrible to live with fear; and it is of all things degrading.

Most things are predestined, but some are just darn sheer luck, said Roaring Abel.

But was anything in life, Anne asked herself wearily, like one's imagination of it?

I've come home in love with loneliness

I am well in body although considerable rumpled up in spirit.