I am not so gifted as at one time seemed likely.
... pure honesty is a doubtful quality; it means often lack of imagination.
How can I express the darkness?
Chastity ... has, even now, a religious importance in a woman's life, and has so wrapped itself round with nerves and instincts that to cut it free and bring it to the light of day demands courage of the rarest.
Long ago I realized that no other person would be to me what you are.
Her life-that was the only chance she had-the short season between two silences.