The night was at her disposal. She might walk back to Great Mop and arrive very late; or she might sleep out and not trouble to arrive till to-morrow. Whichever she did Mrs Leak would not mind. That was one of the advantages of dealing with witches; they do not mind if you are a little odd in your ways, frown if you are late for meals, fret if you are out all night, pry and commiserate when at length you return. Lovely to be with people who prefer their thoughts to yours, lovely to live at your own sweet will, lovely to sleep out all night!

Elizabeth ... had the prerogative of the rich that she could be generous with large sums and niggardly over small ones.

One reason why my memory decays is that I have three cats, all so loving and insistent that they play cat's-cradle with every train of thought. They drove me distracted while I was having influenza, gazing at me with large eyes and saying: O Sylvia, you are so ill, you'll soon be dead. And who will feed us then? Feed us now!

when the German propaganda tries to be winsome it is like a clown with homicidal mania - ludicrous and terrifying both at once.

But what are wishes, compared with longings?

Idleness is righteous if it is comfortable. Uncomfortable idleness is sin & sinful waste.

Only two things are real to me: my love and my death. In between them, I merely exist as a scatter of senses.