No mother is ever, completely, a child's idea of what a mother should be, and I suppose it works the other way around as well.

The newspaper journalists like to believe the worst; they can sell more papers that way, as one of them told me himself; for even upstanding and respectable people dearly love to read ill of others.

Where do the words gowhen we have said them?

If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.

The sun is free, it is still there to be enjoyed.

A Tennyson garden, heavy with scent, languid; the return of the word swoon.