People don't know the consolations of being unsuccessful ... If I had been successful I should have had no peace or time.

Of course one never knows in draft if it's going to turn out, even with my age and experience.

It is an anxious, sometimes a dangerous thing to be a doll. Dolls cannot choose; they can only be chosen; they cannot 'do'; they can only be done by.

A garden isn't meant to be useful. It's for joy. Rumer Godden found in Power of Simple Living by Ellyn Sanna

To me and my kind life itself is a story and we have to tell it in stories - that is the way it falls.

A garden isn't meant to be useful. It's for joy.

As one gets older being sad and miserable can become a bit of a habit. To counteract this, she suggests making a point of savoring such things as the tastiness of a piece of fruit, or other small things we might have been prone to overlook during our younger, busier days.