“Our scars make us know that our past was for real.”

In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.

Let us have the luxury of silence.

A novel must show how the world truly is. Somehow, reveals the true source of our actions.

I am not at all in a humour for writing; I must write on till I am.

My heart is, and always will be, yours.

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

But for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.

There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.

Without music, life would be a blank to me.

Every moment had its pleasure and its hope.

A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

One cannot have too large a party. A large party secures its own amusement.

It is very unfair to judge any body’s conduct, without an intimate knowledge of their situation.

I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.

With women, the heart argues, not the mind.

Boys do cry, but I don’t think I shed a tear for a good chunk of my teenage years.

It isn’t the past which holds us back, it’s the future; and how we undermine it, today.

You feel good, you feel bad, and these feelings are bubbling from your own unconsciousness, from your own past. Nobody is responsible except you.

If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.

If you are judging your hard work based on past personal efforts, it might not be hard work at all!

My call is not to those who believe they belong to the past. My call is to those who believe in the future.

Things exist either because they have recently come into existence or because they have qualities that made them unlikely to be destroyed in the past.

The present is always changing the past.