But when she looked at Prue tonight, she saw this was not now quite true of her. She was just beginning, just moving, just descending.

To want and not to have, sent all up her body a hardness, a hollowness, a strain. And then to want and not to have- to want and want- how that wrung the heart, and wrung it again and again!

The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare.

Well, we must wait for the future to show.

I have had my vision.

About here, she thought, dabbling her fingers in the water, a ship had sunk, and she muttered, dreamily half asleep, how we perished, each alone.

So that is marriage, Lily thought, a man and a woman looking at a girl throwing a ball

So fine was the morning except for a streak of wind here and there that the sea and sky looked all one fabric, as if sails were stuck high up in the sky, or the clouds had dropped down into the sea.

How then did it work out, all this? How did one judge people, think of them? How did one add up this and that and conclude that it is liking one felt, or disliking?

And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of treesand changing leaves.

in this case, a mother, noted for her beauty, might be reduced to a purple shadow... (Tansley to Lily on her painting of the house & grounds)

Perseverance is the act of true role models and heroes.

There's such a thing as moderation even in telling the truth.

All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize that this is wrong: atheism is only one belief system among many.

I love all those great 'f' words - feminism, folk music.

If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be.

Never has my flabber been so completely gasted.

Does anything show the complexity of the miraculous brain more than that weird curiosity, the sleep-protection dream?

We must have an America in which White men and women can live and work, in their homes and in the streets of our cities, without fear.

We will go down in history either as the world's greatest statesmen or its worst villains.

The Government chose to give peace a chance. The Government chose to do something to achieve it.