He who hesitates is not only lost, but miles from the next exit.

I think the novel, its business is the investigation of human nature.

How can a novelist achieve atonement when, with her absolute power of deciding outcomes, she is also God?

Let the guilty bury the innocent, and let no one change the evidence

Above all, she wanted to look as though she had not given the matter a moment's thought, and that would take time.

She returned his gaze, struck by the sense of her own transformation, and overwhelmed by the beauty which a lifetime havit had taught her to ignore.

I've never had a moment's doubt. I love you. I believe in you completely. You are my dearest one. My reason for life.