“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?”

“Life goes on, whether you like it or not. I just wished it could lurch forward. Time is the best doctor, they say, and thats bullshit, because from certain pains you can never heal. They keep screa...”

“When his wife was at his side, she was also in front of him, marking out the horizon of his life. Now the horizon is empty: the view has changed.”

“My heart was oaken before you set it on fire. It will continue to smolder, long after the flame that ignited it has gone.”

“She was of the stuff of which great men's mothers are made. She was indispensable to high generation, feared at tea-parties, hated in shops, and loved at crises.”

“For we think back through our mothers if we are women.”

“He is a young man with a future of power and opportunity and we are young women destined to be either wives and mothers at the very best, or spinster parasites at the worst.”

“I was an infant when my parents died.Thye both were ornithologists. I've triedSo often to evoke them that todayI have a thousand parents. Sadly theyDissolve in their own virtues and recede,But cert...”

“And for the world's orphans. A portion of this book's proceeds will go to you.”

“I was an infant when my parents died.Thye both were ornithologists. I've triedSo often to evoke them that todayI have a thousand parents. Sadly theyDissolve in their own virtues and recede,But cert...”