It is not true that women cannot keep secrets. Where they love, they can be trusted to death and beyond, against all sense and reason. It is their weakness, and their great strength.

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

Perhaps loneliness had nothing to do with place or circumstance; perhaps it was in you; yourself. Perhaps, wherever you were, you took your little circle of loneliness with you.

But I have noticed this about ambitious men, or men in power, that they fear even the slightest and least likely threat to it.

The best way of forgetting how you think you feel is to concentrate on what you know you know.

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

To remember love after long sleep; to turn again to poetry after a year in the market place, or to youth after resignation to drowsy and stiffening age; to remember what once you thought life could hold, after telling over with muddied and calculating fingers what it has offered; this is music, made after long silence. The soul flexes its wings, and, clumsy as any fledgling, tries the air again