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Miss X has always been a ditherer
she was a ten month baby and has not improved in any material way since then.

Life goes on. What nonsense, I thought, of course it doesn't. It's death that goes on.

Oh bless Speranza, for giving her son such a preposterous name as Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde.

Men are more interesting in books than they are in real life.

Treat a dog right and he'll treat you right ... Cats is different, but I never held it against them.

Moses: God or crowd control?!?

Juliet, none of your margin notes! Sophie, dear, don't let her drink coffee while she reads. And off we'd go with new books to read.

Is better to know the truth that live in uncertainty.

The old adage--humor is the best way to make the unbearable bearable--may be true.

I never met a man half so true as a dog.

He's always had more than his fair share of what we call cheek and what Americans call can-do spirit.

I think you learn more if you're laughing at the same time.

Naturally curly hair is a curse, and don't ever let anyone tell you different.

Then i imagined a lifetime of having to cry to get him to be kind, and I went back to no again.

My worries travel about my head on their well-worn path, and it is a relief to put them on paper.

Do you arrange your books alphabetically? (I hope not.)

i have siezed the day, and the night too. -Juliet-

I am to cover the philosophical side of the debate and so far my only thought is that reading keeps you from going gaga.

I've read fast - too impatient not to. But I'll go back and start over again - reading more slowly this time, so I can take everything in.

Isola doesn't approve of small talk and believes in breaking the ice by stomping on it.

All I could do was scream, "How dare you! What have you DONE?! Put my books back!

Oh dear, I want to nuzzle into my sofa, but I have to get up and put on an evening dress.

He wants me to stay in London and go to restaurants and theaters and marry him like a reasonable person.

Those times, I tried to think of something happy, something I'd liked - but not something I loved, for that made it worse.

Redd up the ship!

I wonder how the book got to Guernsey? Perhaps there is some secret sort of homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers.

I thought I was in love (that's the pathetic part - my idea of being in love).

We read books, talked books, argued over books and became dearer and dearer to one another.

Grandpa, that's something I never am." I asked him, "What's that?" And he said, "Lonesome in my spirits." Eli to Eben

People don't know how chickens can turn on you, but they can
just like mad dogs.

Perhaps there is some secret sort of homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers. How delightful if that were true.

I told him that if one had to ask which, it generally meant neither.

After all, what's good enough for Austen ought to be good enough for anyone.

My worries travel around in my head on their well worn path

On the page, I'm perfectly charming, but that's just a trick I learned. It has nothing to do with me.

Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books.

All his flowers have been awaiting me on my arrival. I don't know whether to feel flattered or hunted.

I am no proof against compliments, especially compliments about my writing. I'll be delighted to dine with you.

It was not a windy day, my hair always looks like that.

Not even the Germans could ruin the sea.

He's got that way of believing his opinion is the truth, but he's not disagreeable about it. He's too sure he's right to bother being disagreeable.

I much prefer whining to counting my blessings.

I did not want to spend my time reading about people who never were, doing things they never did.

I have gone to [this bookshop] for years, always finding the one book I wanted - and then three more I hadn't known I wanted.

What a blight that woman is. Do you happen to know why? I lean toward a malignant fairy at her christening.

I swear, Sophie, I think there's something wrong with me. Every man I meet is intolerable. Perhaps I should set my sights lower[ ... ]

Would you like to hear of my first sight of the Germans? I'll use adjectives to make it more lively. I usually don't.

As to that Sidney, he sounds a very fine man - but bossy. It's a failing common in men.

I miss the feeling that we understood one another, but I begin to think that was only my delusion all along.

If there is Predestination, then God is the devil.

He had no imagination either-fatal for one engaged in child-rearing

Jealous of a bitty bird, he was.

In a good mood I call my hair Chestnut with Gold Glints. In a bad mood, I call it mousy brown

Women like poetry. A soft word in their ears and they melt - a grease spot on the grass.

You can purchase my silence with torrid details, you know.

Boredom is a powerful reason, and the prospect of fun is a powerful draw - especially when you are young.

I tried to protest, but Sam turned his back

Reading keeps you from going ga-ga.

My neighbour Evangeline Smythe is going to have twins in June. She is none too happy about it, so I am going to ask her to give one of them to me

His writings have made me his friend.

I was able to un-stick my tongue from the roof of my mouth after the first two minutes and began to have quite a good time.

Did any of you ever think that along about thet ime the notion of a soul gave out, Freud popped up with the ego to take its place?

I could tell you more about reading and how it perked up our spirits while the Germans were here.