That, my dear, is what makes a character interesting, their secrets.

You make a life out of what you have, not what you're missing.

His words had tossed the book that was her life into the air and the pages had been blown into disarray, could never be put back together to tell the same story.

She was the sort of person for whom fear was the natural response to that beyond explanation.

Will history remember us, I wonder? I do hope so - to imagine that one might do something, touch an event somehow, & thereby transcend the bounds of a single human lifetime!

To abandon a child, she had once said to someone, when she thought Cassandra couldn't hear, was an act so cold, so careless, it refused forgiveness.

Had any poet adequately described the wretched ugliness of a loved one turned inside out with grief?

Even the most pragmatic person fell victim at times to a longing for something other.

The world was an awfully large place and it wasn't easy to find a person who'd gone missing sixty years earlier, even if that person was oneself.

Because desperate people cling to hope like sailors to their wreaks.

But though it had prevailed against such fierce adversaries as fire and flood, it had fallen victim softly and swiftly to television in the 1960's.

The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.

Pity womankind, but never a woman.

Sort of desolate, decayed, the smell of - I don't want to dramatise it - but death, you know. That is what it feels like, no-man's-land, and it is not a nice place to be.

It is in length of patience, endurance and forbearance that so much of what is good in mankind and womankind is shown.

My parents are still together. I have two sisters. I travel the world and they are the people I speak to.

I heard somebody say that you can't judge a tree by the bark it wears but by the fruit it bears.

The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.

Is nothing in life ever straight and clear, the way children see it?

I'm really, really worried about the Trump team, and I want people on the team who I think are adults who have judgment and won't do anything stupid.

Fishing is a condition of mind wherein you cannot possibly have a bad time.