It’s better to live like a flame, to know a man and love him even if he can’t be yours, then never to love at all.

You are absolutely beautiful," Anne said. "But if you see yourself, you'll want to pin your hair back like a shepherdess in a bad play." (Eleanor) "Are you saying that I normally look as if I'm tending sheep? With straw in my hair? As if I might yodel?

Yes, it's quite amazing how I continue to shock my mother even after all these years together

Oh, I have felt lust. And I've indulged lust. But no other woman has turned me into another person.

Discretion is a synonym for intelligence.

Some say writing is its own reward. I write for money, but writing for money is not so bad, especially when that writing brings you joy.

Where did you go to school?” Piers inquired. “Your all together too literate for a butler. Most bulters I know say things like as you wish, my lord, and leave it at that. Our conversations should be along these lines: Prufrock, bring me a wench and then you would say, as you wish.