No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.

I am like a small creature swallowed whole by a monster, she thought, and the monster feels my tiny little movements inside.

The idea of a series of items, following one another docilely, forms the only possible reasonable approach to life if you have to live it with a home and a husband and children, none of whom would dream of following one another docilely.

So long as you write it away regularly nothing can really hurt you.

in all the world there is not someone who does not believe something.

In ten years I will be a beautiful charming lovely lady writer without any husband or children but lots of lovers and everyone will read the books I write and want to marry me but I will never marry any of them. I will have lots of money and jewels too.

I remember that I stood on the library steps holding my books and looking for a minute at the soft hinted green in the branches against the sky and wishing, as I always did, that I could walk home across the sky instead of through the village.