Gossip lies nine times and tells a half truth the tenth.

A broken heart in real life isn't half as dreadful as it is in books. It's a good deal like a bad tooth, though you won't think THAT a very romantic simile. It takes spells of aching and gives you a sleepless night now and then, but between times it lets you enjoy life and dreams and echoes and peanut candy as if there were nothing the matter with it.

A bosom friend - an intimate friend, you know - a really kindred spirit to whom I can confide my inmost soul.

When one great passion seizes possession of the soul all other feelings are crowded out.

She had dreamed some brilliant dreams during the past winter and now they lay in the dust around her. In her present mood of self-disgust, she could not immediately begin dreaming again. And she discovered that, while solitude with dreams is glorious, solitude without them has few charms.

Don't be ridiculous, please.' The most insulting words in the world!

Isn't it good just to be alive on a day like this? I pity the people who aren't born yet for missing it.