To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent.

Ah! the terror and the delight of that moment when first we fear ourselves! Until then we have not lived.

The world is little, people are little, human life is little. There is only one big thing — desire.

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.

I first met Myra Henshawe when I was fifteen, but I had known her about ever since I could remember anything at all.

There is something frank and joyous and young in the open face of the country. It gives itself ungrudgingly to the moods of the season, holding nothing back.

Claude Wheeler opened his eyes before the sun was up and vigorously shook his younger brother, who lay in the other half of the same bed.