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.

let's not borrow trouble. The rate of interest is too high.

Thank goodness, we can choose our friends. We have to take our relatives as they are, and be thankful.

But there is always a November space after the leaves have fallen when she felt it was almost indecent to intrude on the woods…for their glory terrestrial had departed and their glory celestial of spirit and purity and whiteness had not yet come upon them.

I've loved you ever since that day you broke your slate over my head in school.

I've just been imagining that it was really me you wanted after all and that I was to stay here for ever and ever. It was a great comfort while it lasted. But the worst of imagining things is that the time comes when you have to stop and that hurts.

I wouldn't want to marry anybody who was wicked, but I think I'd like it if he could be wicked and wouldn't.