Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.
The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman.
An artist's saddest secrets are those that have to do with his artistry.
That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great.
Yet the summer which was to change everything was coming nearer every day. When boys and girls are growing up, life can't stand still, not even in the quietest of country towns; and they have to grow up, whether they will or no. That is what their elders are always forgetting.
When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason had left them. When it has left a place where we have always found it, it is like shipwreck; we drop from security into something malevolent and bottomless.