"The human brain is a funny thing: it will see what it wants to see and ignore what it does not."

"I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past."

"It is only by putting our heads together that we can get rid of the terrible fear of loneliness."

"I am reading Six of One by Mrs. W. K. Clifford. It is about a girl who falls in love with her brother. She is quite mad, but then so are all women."

"I detest the actively good. It is the passively good who do the least harm."