"And sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself,
because I could find no language to describe them in."

***

"Vanity and pride are different things,
though the words are often used synonymously .
A person may be proud without being vain.
Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves;
vanity, to what we would have others think of us."

***

"I was quiet, but I was not blind."

***

"Laugh as much as you choose,
but you will not laugh me out of my opinion."

***

"There is a stubbornness about me
that never can bear to be frightened at te will of others.
My courage always rises with every attempt to intimidate me."

***

"I cannot fix on the hour, or the look, or the words
which laid the foundation.
It is too long ago.
I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun."

***

"Perhaps it is our imperfections that make us
so perfect for one another."