I loved Mr. Darcy far more than any of my own husbands.
A garden isn't meant to be useful. It's for joy. Rumer Godden found in Power of Simple Living by Ellyn Sanna
Every time a child, any child, is born, it is new - and different; that is the wonder.
It's only by being obstinate that anything is got, or done.
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.
To wake for the first time in a new place can be like another birth.