 I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing. |
| Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness. |
| Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel. |
| Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy, you can't build on it it's only good for wallowing in. |
| The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books. |
| Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different. |
| When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves. |
| What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself, in the face of difficulties. |
| I'm a writer first and a woman after. |
| Some couples go over their budgets very carefully every month. Others just go over them. |
| I love the rain. I want the feeling of it on my face. |
| Whenever I prepare for a journey I prepare as though for death. Should I never return, all is in order. |
| It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves. |
| Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change. |
| I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming. |
| This is not a letter but my arms around you for a brief moment. |
| Would you not like to try all sorts of lives - one is so very small - but that is the satisfaction of writing - one can impersonate so many people. |
| Looking back, I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing at all. |
| Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth. |
| If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools. |
