“I am no faint-heart when it comes to the unpleasant truth. Indeed I have always taken a bracing sort of pleasure in facing it.”

“So this, Harriet thought, gazing at her black-clad reflection, was what bearing up looked like. The eyes in the mirror stared at her, somehow, while fixing themselves far”

“Everything about everybody was very soon known by everybody else.”

“One hesitates to open a new chapter when the old one is not resolved.”

“I am afraid I shall disappoint people's expectations dreadfully.”

“No expectations mean there is no risk of disappointment.”

“Everyone has something of the spiti that animates the artist”

“It is painful to see someone suffering what you must be suffering- watching someone you love be so cruelly hurt.”

“Curious creatures we mortals are-how we do not know what we want, or how to get it if we do.”

“It is so important to think for yourself.”

“It is our feelings that guide us and they can never lead us wrong”