“Constants are few in this every changing world.”

“Behaviour comes from a life of indoctrination.”

“Isolate the changes necessary to bring about the life you most desire.”

“Life should always be concerned with balance.”

“Other people influence your life through their actions and thoughts.”

“Nothing happens in life that you are unable to manage satisfactorily.”

“You are -- your life, and nothing else.”

“I would rather drown in the depths of Love than splash around on the shore of complacency.”

“The sun's champagne streamed from one body into another. And there was a couple on the green silk of the grass, covered by a raspberry umbrella. Only their feet and a little bit of lace could be se...”

“Seek a slower, simpler life.”

“There is no such thing as escape after all, only an exchange of one set of difficulties for another. It wasn't Mark or the farm or marriage I was trying to shake loose from but my own imperfect sel...”

“Talking won't change it. But sometimes it was what she wanted most, to tell someone; often, though, she just wanted to escape those horrid feelings, to escape herself, so there was no pain, no fear...”