I gave up hoping...But, still, I would think of him, I would cherish his image in my mind, and treasure every word, look and gesture that memory could retain.

I cannot love a man who cannot protect me.

Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read.

She left me, offended at my want of sympathy, and thinking, no doubt, that I envied her. I did not - at least, I firmly believed I did not.

But, God knows best, I concluded.

No one can be happy in eternal solitude.

The ties that bind us to life are tougher than you imagine, or than any one can who has not felt how roughly they may be pulled without breaking.

There's nothing like active employment, I suppose, to console the afflicted.

My heart is too thoroughly dried to be broken in a hurry, and I mean to live as long as I can.

If we can only speak to slander our betters, let us hold our tongues.

What the world stigmatizes as romantic is often more nearly allied to the truth than is commonly supposed.

Never have I been frightened by circumstances. A little warmth, a little bread, my little ones with me, and life begins, happiness begins.

Literature is a luxury fiction is a necessity.

It cuts like a knife, but it feels so right.

We were born with four words engraved on our bodies and in our hearts: Love me, hold me.

Just as the birds of the air are fed, we'll continue to be fed.

We are here to learn and to make our dreams realized.

I don't know what to think about magic and fairy tales.