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

Life does not always gives us the choices that we want

Life without a phone is riskier, lonelier, more vivid.

Sometimes I spend all day in my dressing gown. But if I do dress, I make myself ravishing because then, I feel ravishing.

They were partners. She would always make impulsive decisions and he would make slow, reasoned ones. He would always be a little terrified that she would look at him with the scorn he saw in his mother's eyes. And she would always be a little terrified that he would look at her and not love her enough. In short, they were made for each other.

Let go of the anger, hang on to the good lessons.

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.