“I am very close to HIM, sometimes I think I am HIM, with my mood is the weather,bright and sunny forever.”

“I'm not a very happy person," I told him."But sometimes I can trick myself into thinking I am.”

“I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again - as I always am when I write.”

“And yet I love him. I love him so much and so dearly, that when I sometimes think my life may be but a weary one, I am proud of it and glad of it. I am proud and glad to suffer something for him, even though it is of no service to him, and he will never know of it or care for it.”

“Sometimes, I think Bill forgets that I am sixteen. But I am very happy that he does.”

“The late hour is such a friend; it has been for so many years. There is not a soul around as I carry Riley downstairs and dump him in my trunk. It is good, for I am not in the mood to kill again, and murder, for me, is very much tied to my mood, like making love. Even when it is necessary.”