“Lucy could see that love unconfined, love outside convention, might well make a woman an unfit mother; you were one kind of woman or another: you were good or you were bad, as the world saw it, and...”

“Take me! Well, not quite take me, love me now, take me eventually”

“For who ever lived totally as they wanted to; who ever, if they have time to think about it, dies wholly satisfied? And those who remain know it.”

“guilt to motherhood is like grapes to wine”

“Books fashion nets to sustain and support the reader as he falls helplessly through the chaos of his own existence.”

“Worry less about what other people think about you, and more about what you think about them.”

“There is too much emphasis on being positive, to the detriment of being real.”

“Believe that fate is smiling to you and everything you touch will turn into gold”

“Self-fulfilling prophecy always come to pass”