To wake for the first time in a new place can be like another birth.

in California I began to think that, except on the beaches, no-one had the use of their legs.

When you learn to read you will be born again...and you will never be quite so alone again.

I loved Mr. Darcy far more than any of my own husbands.

The best would be to have friends who came and went away; but if I had to choose between their never coming or never going away, I think I would choose that they do not come.

If you love the wrong people it's still love, isn't it, no matter what kind of love.

In good company your thoughts run, in solitude your thought is still ... In talk your mind can be stretched, widened, exhilarated to heights, but it cannot be deepened; you have to deepen it yourself.