You will be wondering about that sugar bowl, I imagine, is it still in use? You are wondering, has it been cleaned? You may very well ask, was it thoroughly washed?

The sight of one's own heart is degrading; people are not meant to look inward - that's why they've been given bodies, to hide their souls.

The number of people who expected Mrs. Hutchinson to win a Bendix washer would amaze you.

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.

We eat the year away. We eat the spring and the summer and the fall. We wait for something to grow and then we eat it.

I was wondering about my eyes; one of my eyes--the left--saw everything golden and yellow and orange, and the other eye saw shades of blue and grey and green; perhaps one eye was for daylight and the other was for night. If everyone in the world saw different colors from different eyes there might be a great many new colors still to be invented.

We moved together very slowly toward the house, trying to understand its ugliness and ruin and shame.