“Just before the men closed the tail gate on the float, she strained her head to see me and nodded her head so hard her blonde mane flew around her faceshe looked like she was standing in a cloud of...”

“Peering around her, I took note exactly where the hundred metre high cliff started. i didn't want to be taking an unexpected flying lesson today.”

“Who was that? Layetta asked.Nobody.You cant take a phone call from nobody. That meansthere is no one on the other end of the phone, meaning no phone call. So. Who was it? I asked.”

“You two would get on like a house on fire. Don't douse the flames before you've struck a match.”

“My mouth fell open in incredulity.Ah, Maria. Are you trying to tell me youve taken up the sport of fly-catching with your mouth?Ros reached over and lifted my chin.And an assistant too. So that you...”

“You weasel, good-for-nothing, scumbag, swine,sleazebag, scumbucket, scoundrel, son-of-a-bitch!In the midst of everything, we all looked at Rosina,who smiled sheepishly.Sorry. I was reading the Dict...”

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”

“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”

“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.”

“She's the kind of girl who brings you to the moon without you even being aware. The kind of girl you trip in love with, The kind of girl you never forget.”

“Not every story is about a girl who dreams of romance, waiting impatiently and dramatically for a tall, handsome, strong man to fall hopelessly in love with, in the foolish hope that he will protec...”

“But perhaps she has given me the strength and the madness to write about the things that I once desired so long to put against the world.”

“You never want to look in a mirror," Lula said. "Men love mirrors. They look at themselves doing the deed and they see Rex the Wonder Horse. Women look at themselves and think they need to renew th...”

“Once a month, for one evening, we are free to wear our natural skins. We are on the outside as we are internally.”

“A long shaft of light came down from the sun behind the clouds and fell on the rearing, striking horses so that Thowra was the glittering foam on a waterfall, was quicksilver held for a dazzling mo...”