Certain springs are tapped only when we are alone. Women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves; that firm strand which will be the indispensable center of a whole web of human relationships.

there is no aristocracy of grief. Grief is a great leveler.

For sleep, one needs endless depths of blackness to sink into; daylight is too shallow, it will not cover one.

Marriage should, I think, always be a little bit hard and new and strange. It should be breaking your shell and going into another world, and a bigger one.

It's funny how you can be mad at someone one moment and want to hug them the next.

One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few.

To mention a loved object, a person, or a place to someone else is to invest that object with reality.