You never know how you'll turn out till you've been down to half a dollar and no prospects.

I knew that I had turned my world back to cinders, sunk my lovely ship with my own stupid, wicked hands.

I sometimes think it's a mistake to have been happy when one was a child. One should always want to go on, not back.

Take love easy, as the leaves grow on the trees.

the difficult art I was attempting had, indeed a powerful fascination, before which the past faded, the future receded, and the whole of experience narrowed down to this stretch of glancing, glimmering water, and the fly I was trying to cast across it.

I'm very much to blame for not seeing it before, but who on earth goes about suspecting an impossible outlandish thing like murder? That's something that happens in books, not among people you know.

It is never wise to turn aside from knowing, however the knowing comes.