“The point is, life has to be endured, and lived. But how to live it is the problem.”

“I wonder ... when it was that the world first went amiss, and men forgot how to live and to love and to be happy.”

“She knew that this was happiness, this was living as she had always wished to live.”

“As I stood there,hushed and still,I could swear that the house was not an empty shell but lived and breathed as it had lived before.”

“She had to live in this bright, red gabled house with the nurse until it was time for her to die... I thought how little we know about the feelings of old people. Children we understand, their fears and hopes and make-believe.”

“It wouldn't make for sanity would it, living with the devil.”

“Men and women who have never lived make finer captives on the printed page, or if they have lived, and are historical, then the very knowledge that they belong to a past we have not known ourselves induces fancy.”