What Lily craved was the darkness made by enfolding arms, the silence which is not solitude, but compassion holding its breath.

Only the fact that we are unaware how well our nearest know us enables us to live with them.

Think what stupid things the people must have done with their money who say they're 'happier without'.

Each time you happen to me all over again.

The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.

It's you who are telling me; opening my eyes to things I'd looked at so long that I'd ceased to see them.

Her vivid smile was like a light held up to dazzle me.