Well, we must wait for the future to show.

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.

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)

In the flailing light they all looked sharp-edged and ethereal and divided by great distances

They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods.

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without a teacher.

I know my mom always likes to give the over-the-top 'wow' pieces at baby showers.

...most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.

I think in places like Pennsylvania, there's folks who want our next president to talk like a hawk, but fly like a dove.

Though fancy may be the patient's complaint, necessity is often the doctor's.

They don't know what they're in for at Spence, getting me, a ghost of a girl who'll nod and smile and take her tea but who isn't really here.

Stage is really hard work. You've got to do it every night. Not like doing it once and walking away.

I regret my lack of options. I regret being painted into a corner and having that be the only instrument to get me from point A to point B.

Preventives of evil are far better than remedies; cheaper and easier of application, and surer in result.