The swan who goes on living in its parents' tree will die; this is why those who are beautiful and talented bear the burden of finding their own way in the world.

Sometimes we get through adversity only by imagining what the world might be like if our dreams should ever come true.

All at once I felt so vain, like a girl posturing for the crowds as she walks along, only to discover the street is empty.

I began to feel that all the people I'd ever known who had died or left me had not in fact gone away, but continued to live on inside me just as this man's wife lived on inside him.

If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was.

I didn't say to act dead. I said act helpless.

Passion can quickly slip to jealousy, or even hatred.