Things were not tragic for us then, because although we cared passionately we didn't care deeply.

There are no signposts in the sea.

Successful gardening is not necessarily a question of wealth, it is a question of love, taste, and knowledge.

It isn't that I don't like sweet disorder, but it has to be judiciously arranged.

Of course I should love to throw a toothbrush into a bag, and just go, quite vaguely, without any plans or even a real destination. It is the Wanderlust.

Click, clack, click, clack, went their conversation, like so many knitting-needles, purl, plain, purl, plain, achieving a complex pattern of references, cross-references, Christian names, nicknames, and fleeting allusions.

Nothing shows up the difference between the things said or read, so much as the daily experience of it.