I suppose all this sounds very crazy — all these terrible emotions always do sound foolish when we put them into our inadequate words. They are not meant to be spoken — only felt and endured.

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

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.

You may tire of reality but you never tire of dreams.

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

I love to smell flowers in the dark," she said. "You get hold of their soul then.

My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.