I see through most people; I'm hardly ever wrong. I see at once what they've got in them.

Never did anybody look so sad. Bitter and black, halfway down, in the darkness, in the shaft which ran from the sunlight to the depths, perhaps a tear formed; a tear fell; the waves swayed this way and that, received it, and were at rest. Never did anybody look so sad.

and even a tea party means apprehension, breakage

One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats - and one always secretes too much jelly.

Did it matter then, she asked herself, walking towards Bond Street, did it matter that she must inevitably cease completely? All this must go on without her; did she resent it; or did it not become consoling to believe that death ended absolutely?

To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.

to write a novel in the heart of London is next to an impossibility. I feel as if I were nailing a flag to the top of a mast in a raging gale.