“We are always parting! It's supposed to be sweet sorrow or something, isn't it? Those poets. They'll say anything.”

“That's the way girls are isn't it? They swear eternal friendship, and then as soon as a man's in the case it's all forgotten.”

“We always think we know what we want: when in truth there is nothing we are less likely to know.”

“She sincerely wishes success, for her new life, and intends that no failure of effort, temper, or spirits on her part will jeopardise it.”

“Love is always unexpected”

“I make a rule never to remember anything before last week. It makes life more interesting”

“It is not always easy, for a woman alone.”