“Mary Ann could no more endure a day without reading than she could grow feathers.”
“Maybe that's what growing up is. When you can't be who you are and do what everyone's telling you to do at the same time anymore. - Rowie from Sister Mischief”
“A few days back someone sent me two feathers. Two bird's feathers in a sheet of note-paper with a coronet, and fastened with a seal. Sent from a place a long way off; from one who need not have sent them back at all. That amused me too, those devilish green feathers.”
“Parents die, daughters grow up and marry out, but sisters are for life.”
“A loose feather can't be put back...but a broken wing can sometimes heal.”