Then I imagined a lifetime of having to cry to get him to be kind, and I went back to no again.

I have gone to [this bookshop] for years, always finding the one book I wanted - and then three more I hadn’t known I wanted.

I don't want to be married just to be married. I can't think of anything lonelier than spending the rest of my life with someone I can't talk to, or worse, someone I can't be silent with.

Men are more interesting in books than they are in real life.

Perhaps there is some secret sort of homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers. How delightful if that were true.

Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books.

Think of it! We could have gone on longing for one another and pretending not to notice forever. This obsession with dignity can ruin your life if you let it.

Do you arrange your books alphabetically? (I hope not.)

‎What a blight that woman is. Do you happen to know why? I lean toward a malignant fairy at her christening.

I did not throw 'The Shepherd Boy Sings in the Valley of Humiliation' at the audience. I threw it at the elocution mistress. I meant to cast it at her feet, but I missed.

I did not want to spend my time reading about people who never were, doing things they never did.

Women who disapprove of men - and there's plenty to disapprove of - should remember how we started out, and how far we had to travel.

The receding perspective of my past smothers my present. Remembering is the malignancy that feasts on my now.

Not giving him booze, are you? He's a little young for it.

A craven can be as brave as any man, when there is nothing to fear. And we all do our duty, when there is no cost to it. How easy it seems then, to walk the path of honor.

I love the creating part of taking on a character. It is fun to BE another person and create what it would be like to be that person.

I'm big-busted... I can't always wear the cutest bras, and it makes me so mad.

Faith in Jesus must be personal but it cannot be private.

Whenever sorrow comes, be kind to it. For God has placed a pearl in sorrow’s hand.

The world is known by the senses The senses are known by the mind The mind is known by Consciousness And Consciousness is known by itself

At my age, I know myself. If I make a project, it's a way to help me. I don't do it for therapeutic reasons, but I know that the therapy can be a side profit.