Every minute you spend with someone gives them a part of your life and takes part of theirs.
First a warning, musical; then the hour, irrevocable. The leaden circles dissolved in the air.
A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life
Let us simmer over our incalculable cauldron, our enthralling confusion, our hotchpotch of impulses, our perpetual miracle - for the soul throws up wonders every second. Movement and change are the essence of our being; rigidity is death; conformity is death; let us say what comes into our heads, repeat ourselves, contradict ourselves, fling out the wildest nonsense, and follow the most fantastic fancies without caring what the world does or thinks or says. For nothing matters except life.
I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
I am rooted, but I flow.
Beauty was not everything. Beauty had this penalty — it came too readily, came too completely. It stilled life — froze it.
Once you make the decision that you will not fail, the heart and the body will follow.
I would have done anything to feel real again.
The devils enter uninvited when the house stands empty. For other kinds of guests, you have to first open the door.
For a bookworm like Mother, a Brontë novel sister was better than a biological one.