To feel admiration for a man all through one's married life would, I think, be excessively tedious.

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

That was what, ultimately, war did to you. It was not the physical dangers--the mines at sea, the bombs from the air, the crisp ping of a rifle bullet as you drove over a desert track. No, it was the spiritual danger of learning how much easier life was if you ceased to think.

I learned ... that one can never go back, that one should not ever try to go back - that the essence of life is going forward. Life is really a one way street, isn't it?

I never can stand seeing people pleased with themselves,” said Joanna. “It arouses all my worst instincts.

I always think loyalty's such a tiresome virtue.

There are questions that you don't ask because you're afraid of the answers to them.