“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.”

“Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.”

“Without you in my arms, I feel an emptiness in my soul. I find myself searching the crowds for your face - I know it's an impossibility, but I cannot help myself.”

“So its true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.”