After all, what's good enough for Austen ought to be good enough for anyone.

Naturally curly hair is a curse, and don't ever let anyone tell you different.

‎What a blight that woman is. Do you happen to know why? I lean toward a malignant fairy at her christening.

I sometimes think I prefer suitors in books rather than right in front of me. How awful, backward, cowardly, and mentally warped that will be if it turns out to be true.

Have you ever noticed that when your mind is awakened or drawn to someone new, that person's name suddenly pops up everywhere you go? My friend Sophie calls it coincidence, and Mr. Simpless, my parson friend, calls it Grace. He thinks that if one cares deeply about someone or something new one throws a kind of energy out into the world, and "fruitfulness" is drawn in.

Do you arrange your books alphabetically? (I hope not.)

I think you learn more if you're laughing at the same time.