Life itself, she thought, as she went upstairs to dress for dinner, was stranger than dreams and far, far more disordered.

Greece is not a country of happy mediums: everything there seems to be either wonderful or horrible.

Sun, silence, and happiness.

What is so nice & so unexpected about life is the way it improves as it goes along. I think you should impress this fact on your children because I think young people have an awful feeling that life is slipping past them & they must do something - catch something - they don't quite know what, whereas they've only got to wait & it all comes.

Nothing about human beings ever had the power to move me as a child. Black Beauty now ... !

I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.

I think housework is far more tiring and frightening than hunting is, no comparison, and yet after hunting we had eggs for tea and were made to rest for hours, but after housework people expect one to go on just as if nothing special had happened.