Mary Lascelles

“A clever girl may pass through the phase of foolish miss on the way to sensible woman.”

“A story conducted by the time of a clock and calendars alone would be a story not of human beings but of mechanical toys.”

“Landscapes we must owe something to the eye of the beholder.”

“When many story-tellers occupy themselves with a social world which offers no great variety of lively action, their stories will probably resemble one another as to many of the major incidents, and if they draw on these limited resources like spend thrifts such resemblances will be inevitable--and therefore not significant.”