“I had changed, and gone on changing, but I did not fully remember how it had begun, or understand why.”

“We make our own destiny.”

“I was frightened of myself, I seemed to have no control over my thoughts and feelings, it was like a sort of madness...”

“We are not punished for our sins, we are punished by them. We can't live with guilt for the whole of our lives..”

“I felt dead and sick inside.”

“Your world may think what it chooses...but really, opinion and gossip count for nothing at all against truth...”

“With a secret like that, at some point the secret itself becomes irrelevant. The fact that you kept it does not.”

“Then Cassie told her story. The feeling was like gathering up everything she's ever done or felt or known up to that moment and tying it into a ball and pitching it with all her might as far away a...”

“Every woman needs secrets,' her mother said with a smile then, her eyes meeting Sally's in the rearview mirror. 'Remember that when you're old like me, pumpkin, because the world has a way of makin...”