“It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.”

“I've had an exciting life I married for love and got a little money along with it.”

“Birds sing after a storm why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?”

“I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often but I'm well preserved.”

“Life isn't a matter of milestones but of moments.”

“Birds sing after a storm why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?”

“It seems to me that since I've had children, I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while, but when I did write, I had more of a self to speak from.”

“It didn't matter that there was a war on our doorstep. She had things to do, places to be.”

“Stranger inside me, when you are born, I will give youa closed book and ask you never to read it, never rest, never forgive a man who wants to save you.”