“But fear is no fit means to measure anyone, for fools have no fear, or so I've heard it said.”

“How much easier my life would be if I did not love you! I thought. How much less painful, but how much plainer. How much less color there would be in the world.”

“Perhaps love and hope are one and the same.”

“Everything is beautiful in its own way, ma belle, even if you have to look hard to find it.”

“The trouble with being angry is that it not only makes you feel stupid, it encourages you to say stupid things as well. Stupid things that are hard to take back and impossible to erase.”

“A home is a place one's heart creates and so recognizes as its own. A place it enters of its own free will. All others are merely dwelling places.”

“There are many things that make a man irritable when he arrives home from work in the evening and a sensible wife will usually notice the storm-signals and will leave him alone until he simmers down.”

“Oblivion, she thought. That was the world she lived in. It was what they should name some countries, towns, and places.”

“A lot of men wouldn't like being called a romantic. It's not macho enough.'Quite often men are fools.”