youth, when it is hurt, likes to feel itself betrayed.

New things are always ugly.

To fulfil the dreams of one's youth; that is the best that can happen to a man. No worldly success can take the place of that.

Every artist makes himself born. It is very much harder than the other time, and longer.

Human relationships are the tragic necessity of human life; that they can never be wholly satisfactory, that every ego is half the time greedily seeking them, and half the time pulling away from them.

Oh, that's the beauty of the rose, that it blossoms and dies.

"More than him has done that," said Antonia sadly, and the girls murmured assent.