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With everything that happens to you, with everyone you meet who is important to you, you either die a little or are born.

Of course one never knows in draft if it's going to turn out, even with my age and experience.

Drink very good tea out of a thin Wocester cup of colour between apricot and pink ...

The stitch of a book is its words.

The human heart
Is unknowable.
But in my birthplace
The flowers still smell
The same as always.

Is it easier to be than to do?

You must remember garden catalogues are as big liars as house-agents.

Sometimes,' she said, remembering that morning, 'I write poems that are taller than I am

For an author nothing is as dead as a book once it is written.

To wake for the first time in a new place can be like another birth.

So many grown-up people seem to be nothing very much.

It is an anxious, sometimes a dangerous thing to be a doll. Dolls cannot choose; they can only be chosen; they cannot 'do'; they can only be done by.

I loved Mr. Darcy far more than any of my own husbands.

Sometimes it seemed to him that the house had a bad wild life of its own; the impression of its evil lingered, in its name, in its atmosphere ...

We would rather not play with you," said Anne.
"Because you're a little rotter," said Tom.

Eliot always said, "I'm sorry. I had to do that." If you are all right really, really all right, you don't do things that are sorry.

A garden isn't meant to be useful. It's for joy.
Rumer Godden found in Power of Simple Living by Ellyn Sanna

I don't know if I believe in God, but I know I believe in the devil. I have met him.

You are born, you are a he or a she, and you live until you die ... Willy-nilly.

Once you have felt the Indian dust, you will never be free of it.

remember that people need only be told as much of the truth as they are entitled to know,

The motto was 'Pax', but the word was set in a circle of thorns.

If you love the wrong people it's still love, isn't it, no matter what kind of love ...

When you learn to read you will be born again ... and you will never be quite so alone again.

Wanting is the beginning of getting.

You have to be very strong to live close to God or a mountain, or you'll turn a little mad.

Cleverness is a disease.

When one came to know them it was surprising how childish grown people could be.

You can be a nuisance to your family. You mustn't be a nuisance to your friends.

People don't know the consolations of being unsuccessful ... If I had been successful I should have had no peace or time.

I know now it is children who accept life; grown people cover it up and pretend it is different with drinks.

When I was a child I remember days that stretched into infinity with the certainty of other infinite days; certain, unhurried and brimmingly full.

For a dyed-in-the-wool author, nothing is as dead as a book once it is written. She is rather like a cat whose kittens have grown up.

Funny,' said Harriet to herself. 'The world goes on turning, and it has all these troubles in it.

Every time a child, any child, is born, it is new - and different; that is the wonder.

To me and my kind life itself is a story and we have to tell it in stories - that is the way it falls.

He had always disliked what he could easily have; he had a passion for the untouched.

Memory is the only friend of grief.

It's only by being obstinate that anything is got, or done.

In California I began to think that, except on the beaches, no-one had the use of their legs.