Do you remember what you said to me once? That you could help me only by loving me? Well-you did love me for a moment; and it helped me. It has always helped me.

I feel as if I could trust my happiness to carry me; as if it had grown out of me like wings.

Half the trouble in life is caused by pretending there isn't any.

I discovered early that crying makes my nose red, and the knowledge has helped me through several painful episodes.

She said she knew we were safe with you, and always would be, because once, when she asked you to, you'd given up the thing you most wanted." Archer received this strange communication in silence. His eyes remained unseeingly fixed on the thronged sunlit square below the window. At length he said in a low voice: "She never asked me.

I'm not much interested in travelling scholarships for women - or in fact in scholarships, tout court! - they'd much better stay at home and mind the baby. Still less am I interested in scholarships for female Yids.

Every house is a mad-house at some time or another.