There are no ambitions noble enough to justify breaking someone's heart.

It's no fun to be a bluestocking in a family of jockstraps.

There was some justice in his pain

The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more.

Twelve thousand miles of it, to the other side of the world. And whether they came home again or not, they would belong neither here, nor there, for they would have lived on two continents and sampled two different ways of life.

I am writing a sequel to The Touch because I want to further explore the Chinese question that I have raised. There will be more about that in a sequel.

...she looked like the sort of woman most men would want to get to know because they weren't sure what went on inside.