“Children, Hadley thinks to herself, children are more civilised than this gang on the sauce.”

“But writers and their woes: they couldn't be parted. Not for anything.”

“She kissed him but he didn't seem to recognize it.”

“The hangover: such a cure, she thinks, for overthinking.”

“Talents too many, not enough of any.”

“I want to be a good man, a good writer.""Be one or the other, Ernest, not both.”

“As the tension between the Protestants and the Church of Rome intensified, so did the desire for a third way among dissenting groups. Soon a new group emerged, though in some senses it was also an ...”

“Good men are often more practical than pretty " said Mother. "Andrius just happens to be both.”

“How did I get here How did I end up in the arms of a boy I barely knew but knew I didn't want to lose I wondered what I would have thought of Andrius in Lithuania. Would I have liked him Would he h...”

“Is not our purest form of writing that done without the taint of money?”

“One single letter cures the blank page.”

“When you write, you can write yourself into the world of your dreams or the world of your nightmares. The choice is yours!”