Fending for oneself alone on a desert island is really no laughing matter. It is no crying one either

“I ask now, standing with my scissors among my flowers, Where can the shadow ent…”

“One can only show how one came to hold whatever opinion one does hold.”

“she was a pioneer, a stray, venturing, trusting.”

“Suppose the looking glass smashes, the image disappears, and the romantic figur…”