I have always thought that a wild animal never looks so well as when some obstacle of pronounced durability is between us. A personal experience has intensified rather than diminished that idea.
Sleep has no place it can call its own.
I do not, as you know, take sufficient interest in dress to be able to describe the new fashions. Dress is a bore.
I could not resist the temptation of mystifying him a bit, I suppose it is some taste of the original apple that remains still in our mouths.
She was young and very beautiful, but pale, like the grey pallor of death.
Because if a woman’s heart was free a man might have hope.
I suppose a cry does us all good at times-clears the air as other rain does.
There are bad dreams for those who sleep unwisely.
I have a sort of empty feeling; nothing in the world seems of sufficient importance to be worth the doing.
We are all drifting reefwards now, and faith is our only anchor.
Loneliness will sit over our roofs with brooding wings.
Enter freely and of your own free will!
Oh, why must a man like that be made unhappy when there are lots of girls about who would worship the very ground he trod on?
She is one of God’s women fashioned by His own hand to show us men and other women that there is a heaven where we can enter, and that its light can be here on earth.
Even if she be not harmed, her heart may fail her in so much and so many horrors; and hereafter she may suffer – both in waking, from her nerves, and in sleep, from her dreams.
We are in Transylvania, and Transylvania is not England. Our ways are not your ways, and there shall be to you many strange things. Nay, from what you have told me of your experiences already, you know something of what strange things there may be.
Yes, there is some one I love, though he has not told me yet that he even loves me.
Love is, after all, a selfish thing; and it throws a black shadow on anything between which and the light it stands.
I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul.
I have crossed oceans of time to find you.