“Id venture to guess that a list of things you know nothing about could fill volumes.”

“It pains me to admit this, but Roger was a good sight less stupid than most children.”

“she simply accepted it for what it was a normal, average, everyday kind of miracle.”

“Jocelyns stomach lodged another complaint with the management regarding the length of time since breakfast.”

“if you will quit squirming about and be patient you will see that most things in life, wishes included, do not have immediate results.”

“Jocelyn did not want to always remain the same. Where was the adventure in that?”

“I love new clothes. If everyone could just wear new clothes everyday, I reckon depression wouldnt exist anymore.”

“Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speak by something outside himself-like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.”

“Guilty feelings about clothes are totally unnecessary. A lot of people earn their living by making clothes, so you should never feel bad.”

“[She] had heard it said that there was only one emotion which, in recollection, was capable of resurrecting the full immediacy and power of the originalone emotion that time could never fade, and t...”

“In my view, suicide is not really a wish for life to end.'What is it then?'It is the only way a powerless person can find to make everybody else look away from his shame. The wish is not to die, bu...”

“I know how soon youth would fade and bloom perish, if, in the cup of bliss offered, but one dreg of shame, or one flavour of remorse were detected; and I do not want sacrifice, sorrow, dissolution ...”