The best thing a girl can be is a good wife and mother. It is a girl's highest calling. I hope I am ready.

A clock only turns one direction

I dream of land, cut only where streams glistened with birdsong wander through quiet hills burnt hard by the scrape of wind, and of a porch from which a single road leads only homeward.

How is it possible for me to feel so young and so old at the same time?

How fragile our lives are anyway. How quickly things can change forever.

Getting out of bed is a good way to leave your troubles behind.

The best cure for sadness is doing something.

Taking up marriage is a good excuse for taking up cursing, I think.

We are a noisy and blessed little family

[Children] just cannot be sad too long, it is not in them, as children mourn in little bits here and there like patchwork in their lives.

At times, it's better to think of exactly what is happening right in front of you every second, rather than going through things from the past in your mind.

... a surplus of effort could overcome a deficit of confidence. Page 115

When you’re given the gift of truth, you spend a lot of time trying to tone it down because it is already offensive enough.

Anybody who comes to you and says he has a perfect language is either naive or a salesman.

It's nice to get your glad rags on for awards like the Baftas, but it doesn't happen all the time.

As a hobbyist, there's something about miniature anything that captures my imagination.

Life asks not merely what you can do; it asks how much can you endure and not be spoiled.

I paid my bill. Let me speak to your supervisor!

After all it really is all of humanity that is under threat during a pandemic.

I don’t want to be special. I don’t want to look special. I’m happy with just ‘me’

It would be the ultimate dream for me to win an Academy Award, be in love and have kids. Then I would say, 'Life is great! I have done everything I wanted.