If you don't mind a word of advice, one never asks a lady to set her own price. If you have to ask, the answer will always be more than you can afford.

You don't know how easy death is. It's - it's like a door. A person simply walks through it, and she's lost to you forever.

I would prefer not to throw myself on a funeral pyre. Please come back to me.

The books weren't exactly Linnet's general reading fare, but a desperate woman will read anything.

He's male. I've noticed that sometimes the brains simply get left out of the package.

Life does not always gives us the choices that we want

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?