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.

What’s broken is broken—and I’d rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I live…I’m too old to believe in such sentimentalities as clean slates and starting all over.

It's a curse - this not wanting to look on naked realities. Until the war, life was never more real to me than a shadow show on a curtain. And I preferred it so. I do not like the outlines of things to be too sharp. I like them gently blurred, a little hazy.

All wars are sacred to those who have to fight them. If the people who started wars didn't make them sacred, who would be foolish enough to fight?

I'm tired of saying "How wonderful you are!" to fool men, who haven't got one half sense I've got.

I wonder if anyone but me realizes what goes on in that head back of your deceptively sweet face.

Like most girls, her imagination carried her just as far as the altar and no further.