People have thoughts they’d sooner not have. It happens in life.

So what about me? Would I always have to find a high horse? The moral relish, the rising above, the being in the right, which can make me flaunt my losses.

What she wants to do if she can get the time to do it, is not so much to live in the past as to open it up and get one good look at it".

We say of some things that they can't be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do-we do it all the time.

I felt in him what women feel in men, something so tender, swollen, tyrannical, absurd; I would never take the consequences of interfering with it.

In your life there are a few places, or maybe only the one place, where something happened, and then there are all the other places.

I was amazed as people must be who are seized and kidnapped, and who realize that in the strange world of their captors they have a value absolutely unconnected with anything they know about themselves.