Work happens like in Harry Potter. Magic I mean.

An Army wife is probably the only woman in the world whoknows and readily accepts that she is the mistress, because, let’sface it, the Army is the wife and the wife gets all the damnattention!

There is strong. There is Army Strong. And then there is Army Wife Strong.

Apparently officers are not ‘men’. Officers are ‘officers’.

She oozes the kind of over-confidence that only comes to people who wear deep red lipstick and sparkly tissue sarees in bright daylight.

We are all regular people, Pia, ’ she laughs. ‘But we are notregular wives.

...She says with that mistyfar-away look in her eyes. Like conjunctivitis.

I'm looking for some kind of permanence, so my mark will linger on the world once I'm gone, in the places where I found joy..

When you have left your life, you will be judged not for your possessions but for your contributions.

Do you have to find the evil in yourself in order to truly recognize it in the world?

Ironing boards are a classic example of something I find horrible about modern society: the excitementation, for want of a better word, of mundane things.

Every man who is not a monster, a mathematician, or a mad philosopher, is the slave of some woman or other.

I don't feel sure about doing good in any way now; everything seems like going on a mission to a people whose language I don't know.

O delicious kiss, Why thou so sudden art gone? Lost in the moment thou art won?

When your past calls, don't answer. It has nothing new to say.

Do not always live in your world; visit the worlds of others too!

I have fished through fishless days that I remember happily without regret.