“Thinking of death--strange, beautiful, terrible and a long way off--made me feel happier than ever.”

“You're the kind of child who might develop a passion for Bach."I told him I hadn't at school. The one Bach piece I learnt made me feel I was being repeatedly hit on the head with a teaspoon.”

“There is something revolting about the way girls' minds so often jump to marriage long before they jump to love.”

“Still, looking through the old volumes was soothing, because thinking of the past made the present seem a little less real.”

“It's odd how different a house feels when one is alone in it. It makes it easier to think rather private thoughts...”

“Everything in the least connected with him has value for me; if someone even mentions his name it is like a little present to me-and I long to mention it myself”

“... there is something revolting about the way girls' minds so often jump to marriage long before they jump to love. And most of those minds are shut to what marriage really means.”