Happiness happens when you fit with your life, when you fit so harmoniously that whatsoever you are doing is your joy. Happiness is not a possession ….

I suppose sooner or later in the life of everyone comes a moment of trial. We all of us have our particular devil who rides us and torments us, and w….

Women want love to be a novel, men a short story..

I wondered why it was that places are so much lovelier when one is alone..

People who travel are always fugitives..

Time will mellow it, make it a moment for laughter. But now it was not funny, now I did not laugh. It was not the future, it was the present. It was ….

Writing every book is like a purge; at the end of it one is empty ... like a dry shell on the beach, waiting for the tide to come in again..

The moment of crisis had come, and I must face it. My old fears, my diffidence, my shyness, my hopeless sense of inferiority, must be conquered now a….

no person will ever get into my blood as a place can ... People and things pass away, but not places..

Look on each day that comes as a challenge, as a test of courage. The pain will come in waves, some days worse than others, for no apparent reason. A….

We are all ghosts of yesterday, and the phantom of tomorrow awaits us alike in sunshine or in shadow, dimly perceived at times, never entirely lost..

If only there could be an invention that bottled up a memory, like scent. And it never faded, and it never got stale. And then, when one wanted it, t….

When one is writing a novel in the first person, one must be that person..

Life was a series of greetings and farewells, one was always saying good-bye to something, to someone..

Every moment was a precious thing, having in it the essence of finality..

Nothing like a cup of tea to make a person feel better, man or woman..

There is no going back in life. There is no return. No second chance..

How simple life becomes when things like mirrors are forgotten..

A dreamer, I walked enchanted, and nothing held me back..

Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind..

But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands..