Always winter but never Christmas.

The Christian idea of marriage is based on Christ's words that a man and wife are to be regarded as a single organism - for that is what the words 'one flesh' would be in modern English. And the Christians believe that when He said this He was not expressing a sentiment but stating a fact - just as one is stating a fact when one says that a lock and its key are one mechanism, or that a violin and a bow are one musical instrument.

The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the deal.

The Christians are right: it is Pride which has been the chief cause of misery in every nation and every family since the world began.

I can promise you none of these things. No sphere of usefulness; you are not needed there at all. No scope of your talents; only forgiveness for having perverted them. No atmosphere of inquiry, for I will bring you to the land not of questions but of answers, and you shall see the face of God. (pg 40)

Clearly one must read every good book at least once every ten years.

She remembered, as every sensible person does, that you should never never shut yourself up in a wardrobe.