You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

You can't think how I depend on you, and when you're not there the colour goes out of my life.

Nothing is stronger than the position of the dead among the living.

Once she knows how to read there's only one thing you can teach her to believe in and that is herself.

She had known happiness, exquisite happiness, intense happiness, and it silvered the rough waves a little more brightly, as daylight faded, and the blue went out of the sea and it rolled in waves of pure lemon which curved and swelled and broke upon the beach and the ecstasy burst in her eyes and waves of pure delight raced over the floor of her mind and she felt, It is enough! It is enough!

The truer the facts the better the fiction.

I will dream today; for I must unscrew my head somehow.