“...I wondered why so much had been written about love's pain and so little about the glorious relief of being delivered from love's pain.”

“It happens the world over - we love ourselves more than we do the one we say we love. We all want to be Number One, we've got to be Number One or nothing! We can't see that we could make ourselves ...”

“From my window I watched the full moona moon that reminded me of Brettbecome shadowed, little by little until there was only a deep blackness in the woods at night. I would sit there wakeful, hour ...”

“I found lines that mirrored an ache and longing I had so often felt when the beauty around my woods cathedral was too intense, when the need to grasp and keep loveliness left me with a sense of des...”

“On such a night, I thought, were ill and good,Bright and unlovely; precious, tawdry, All mingled into oneAnd pressed against my heart.”

“One never stops climbing, Julie, unless he wants to stop and vegetate. Theres always something just ahead.”

“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.”