I loved something I made up, something that's just as dead as Melly is. I made a pretty suit of clothes and fell in love with it. And when Ashley came riding along, so handsome, so different, I put that suit on him and made him wear it whether it fitted him or not. And I wouldn't see what he really was. I kept on loving the pretty clothes—and not him at all.

[T]he merciful adjustment which nature makes when what cannot be cured must be endured.

People must do what they must do. We all don't think alike or act alike and it's wrong to-to judge others by ourselves.

My age is my own private business and I intend to keep it so - if I can. I am not so old that I am ashamed of my age and I am not so young that I couldn't have written my book and that is all the public needs to know about my age.

Every problem has two handles. You can grab it by the handle of fear or the handle of hope.

What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of a civilization as from the upbuilding of one.

She hasn't your strength. She's never had any strength. She's never had anything but heart.