it would be lovely to sleep in a wild cherry-tree all white with bloom in the moonshine

You were never poor as long as you had something to love.

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.

Don't look at me so sorrowfully and so disapprovingly, dearest. I can't be sober and serious - everything looks so rosy and rainbowy to me.

The only true animal is a cat, and the only true cat is a gray cat.

Do you think amethysts can be the souls of good violets?

That's one of the things we learn as we grow older -- how to forgive. It comes easier at forty than it did at twenty.