She felt drawing further from her and further from her an Archduke, (she did not mind that) a fortune, (she did not mind that) the safety and circumstance of married life, (she did not mind that) but life she heard going from her, and a lover.

I am overwhelmed with things I ought to have written about and never found the proper words.

The only advice ... that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions.

Fear no more, says the heart.

Let it be fact, one feels, or let it be fiction; the imagination will not serve under two masters simultaneously.

This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.

Let us not take for granted that life exists more fully in what is commonly thought big than in what is commonly thought small.