My first impulse is always to behave, about everything, as if I feared complications. But I don't fear them— I really like them. They're quite my element.

“It had come back to him simply that what he had been looking at all summer was …”

“A family is a little world within doors; the miniature resemblance of the great…”

“She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wonderi…”

“The real offense, as she ultimately perceived, was her having a mind of her own…”