Secrets are generally terrible. Beauty is not often hidden — only ugliness and deformity.

As she walked along she dramatized the night. There was about it a wild, lawless charm that appealed to a certain wild, lawless strain hidden deep in Emily’s nature—the strain of the gypsy and the poet, the genius and the fool.

Youth is not a vanished thing but something that dwells forever in the heart.

You are the only person who loves me in the world," said Elizabeth. "When you talk to me I smell violets.

It's bad enough to feel insignificant, but it's unbearable to have it grained into your soul that you will never, can never, be anything but insignificant.

it doesn't take long to stay an hour.

Trees have as much individuality as human beings. Not even two spruces are alike. There is always some kink or curve or bend of bough to single each one out from its fellows.