If I like a thing, it just sticks after once reading it or hearing it.

I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.

Begin at once to live and count each separate day as a separate life.

A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

I have often been downcast but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary, I treat all the privations as amusing.